Tuesdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a look at what makes investors anxious.
Quote of the Day
"Startups are hard. Rarely does the first year or two go exactly as planned."
(David Cohen)
Unicorns
- What happens to unicorn valuations when interest rates start rising? (businessinsider.com)
- How the unicorn crash will hurt investors. (blog.bison.co)
Startups
- Additional capital should move the operational needle, not for show. (techcrunch.com)
- Fundraising as a fact-finding mission. (avc.com)
- Selling goods at a loss to acquire customers is a risky strategy. (nytimes.com)
- Ten lessons from ten years of seed investing including the value of female founders. (10years.firstround.com)
- San Francisco landlords don't want to rent to startups. (vox.com)
- Five ways to mitigate hiring risk. (medium.com)
- How Chicago ranks as a startup city. (pointsandfigures.com)
- How companies like DogVacay can take "a fragmented, profoundly inefficient market and making it more transparent and liquid." (bloombergview.com)
- Why some companies are called tech companies and others are not. (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
- How to be successful in crowdfunding campaigns. (theatlantic.com)