Tuesdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a look at “dirty term sheets.”
Quote of the Day
"It pays to have big dreams but low overhead."
(Seth Godin)
Companies
- Newly funded Odyssey is like a network of college newspapers on steroids. (businessinsider.com)
- Talkshow is texting in public. (kottke.org)
Medical
- Why doctors like to collaborate with startups. (fastcompany.com)
- Health care startups ignore the FDA at their own peril. (washingtonpost.com)
Venture capital
- What is so special about Andreessen Horowitz? (medium.com)
- VCs need to approach "passing" with great care. (tdevane.tumblr.com)
- Some common characteristics of successful VCs. (medium.com)
- This new VC firm is going about things differently by focusing on common equity not preferred. (fortune.com)
- The trend is back toward smaller seed rounds. (medium.com)
Startups
- Silicon Valley needs a new model. (medium.com)
- The end of the smartphone boom is now in sight. (ben-evans.com)
- The roadmap for the mass adoption of automated investment services. (blog.wealthfront.com)
- Can crowdfunding succeed without a secondary market? (wsj.com)
- Co-working spaces are facing a bubble/boom. (crainsnewyork.com)
