Thursdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a look at the Series A crunch.
Quote of the Day
"I tell them to take big risks, because this is the one point in your life when you have nothing to lose. You amass barnacles of good living as you get older, which makes it that much harder to make a big bet."
(Max Levchin)
Going public
- What happens after a company goes public. (linkedin.com)
- How many shares do founders own when their companies go public? (priceonomics.com)
Investors
- An interview the Scott Dorsey, co-founder of ExactTarget and venture capital firm HighAlpha. (tapes.scalevp.com)
- How Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures goes about investing at the seed level. (medium.com)
- Harry Stebbings talks with Alexis Ohanian co-founder of Reddit and Initialized Capital. (thetwentyminutevc.com)
Startups
- How to read a term sheet. (medium.com)
- On the importance of understanding customer acquisition costs (CAC). (25iq.com)
- On the necessity of being early. (avc.com)
- How growth investing differs from early stage investing. (mattermark.com)
- How to cold e-mail an investor. (continuations.com)
- Is your startup an AI company? (medium.com)
- Uber's long term success is not a given. (finnscave.com)
- A free e-book by Angela Tran Kingyens and Boris Wertz entitled "Understanding Social Platforms." (versionone.vc)
- The start-up world is opening up to the dangers of depression. (fortune.com)
