Tuesdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a look at the relative size of America’s tech unicorns.
Quote of the Day
"I think it’s this dichotomy that makes the current bubble discussion so difficult: most unicorns may be overvalued, but in aggregate they are probably undervalued."
(Ben Thompson)
Startups
- Startups need a killer slide deck. (christophjanz.blogspot.com)
- Entrepreneurs create companies, not unicorns. (aleph.vc)
Companies
- How does Product Hunt actually work? (recode.net)
- DuckDuckGo is benefiting from consumer unease with Google ($GOOG). (fastcompany.com)
- A profile of the companies that do all the hard work in renting out your place. (nytimes.com)
- On the state of the Bitcoin startup space. (blog.semilshah.com)
Venture capital
- Mark Suster, "The best investors do less." (bothsidesofthetable.com)
- Don't congratulate someone for writing a check. (medium.com)
- Lessons learned from 10 months as a VC. (medium.com)
- Ignoring junior VCs is a mistake. (techcrunch.com)
- On the rise of the "quasi-IPO." (soundcloud.com)
- How many unicorns are at-risk to an unfavorable tax ruling on independent contractor status? (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- How some LPs think about venture capital investing. (a16z.com)
- At present, VCs are investing more than they are giving back. (fortune.com)
- How long before VCs and angel investors get their money back. (teten.com)
