ATuesdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a look at the downside of ‘spray and pray’ strategies.
Quote of the Day
"(B)uilding a great company is a combination of patience and impatience in equal doses applied unevenly. Impatient short term, patient long term."
(Fred Wilson)
Founders
- How much money should your startup raise and how much? (medium.com)
- Build the company you want to work for. (wistia.com)
- Why startup board meetings suck. (medium.com)
- Why companies need structure. (themodernteam.com)
- Startups shouldn't raise money just because they can. (groovehq.com)
- Startup types would do well to find some time away from the office. (pointsandfigures.com)
- How to design a better pitch deck. (macro.ycombinator.com)
Venture capital
- Benedict Evans, "We're all prone to apply old mental models to new things when they look like the old things." (ben-evans.com)
- Some insights from Chris Dixon on how nearly every successful startup almost fails at some point. (thewaiterspad.com)
- Andreessen Horowitz is ramping up its investments in health care. (businessinsider.com)
- How biotech startups look like software starutps. (a16z.com)
- "Artivest aims to be the destination for alternative investing." (tradestreaming.com)
- A real estate crowdfunding platform is launching a REIT. (techcrunch.com)
- How America's bankruptcy laws allow for more entrepreneurship. (fool.com)
- The food delivery space is getting crowded. (bloomberg.com)
- Why Rdio died. (theverge.com)
