Tuesdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a look at broken cap tables.
Venture capital
- "Sneaky" questions VCs ask founders. (techcrunch.com)
- How a seed-stage VC makes investment decisions. (nextviewventures.com)
- How pro-rata rights work. (davidcummings.org)
- The underlying match of VC funding decisions. (medium.com)
- There is increasing interest in swapping stakes in pre-IPO companies. (blogs.wsj.com)
Companies
- Education tech funding is on the rise, but to what effect? (fortune.com)
- This is the Achilles heel of Uber and other on-demand companies. (nymag.com)
- What is Slack's "secret sauce"? (medium.com)
Startups
- Comparing Y Combinator and TechStars fom an alum of both. (codementor.io)
- Should companies be more transparent about their fundraising? (feld.com)
- Understanding the early stages of investment for a startup. (medium.com)
- Subtle mid-stage startup pitfalls. (foundersatwork.posthaven.com)
- First Wall Street, now Silicon Valley: quants are taking over. (techcrunch.com)