Tuesdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a look ageism in Silicon Valley.
Quote of the Day
"Every single successful sustainable business in the United States builds value for someone. People pay them and the entrepreneur earns a profit if they operate their business correctly. If you aren’t generating revenue, and eventually generate profit-it’s a hobby."
(Jeff Carter)
AngelList
- AngelList is touting the returns from 2013-era syndicates. (angel.co)
- AngelList is raising institutional money to get through an inevitable "rainy day." (bloomberg.com)
VC
- Venture capital is a drug. (techcrunch.com)
- How Venrock picks investments. (knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)
- Silicon Valley VCs pay wicked high rents. (bloomberg.com)
- The venture capital firm that wasn't there. (fortune.com)
Startups
- How founders with different assets can put together an equity agreement. (vergehq.com)
- Five things you NEED to do when you start a company. (medium.com)
- Some angel investing misnomers. (medium.com)
- Five pieces of advice from Bill Gurley. (thewaiterspad.com)
- A talk with Shel Kaplan, Amazon's ($AMZN) first employee. (themacro.com)