Excerpt: Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson authors of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist, Third Edition talk about negotiating with a VC. (ValueWalk)
Quote of the Day
"The physical retail industry may be in an existential crisis, and an accelerating pace of interest rate increases is unlikely to help matters."
(Conor Sen)
Markets
Strategy
- Active managers should hope to "win big early" on in the game. (bloomberg.com)
- Why good traders don't hold onto stocks like Valeant ($VRX) all the way down. (thereformedbroker.com)
- Why process-based strategies are usually lower risk. (seeitmarket.com)
- More information is not necessarily an advantage for investors. (pragcap.com)
Companies
- Chris Sacca no longer owns a share of Twitter ($TWTR). (businessinsider.com)
- Instagram has more pull with advertisers than Snap ($SNAP). (fortune.com)
Hedge funds
- Putting a number on just how much Bill Ackman's funds lost on Valeant ($VRX). (bloomberg.com)
- A hedge fund that only bets on daily changes in volatility. (bloomberg.com)
Offers
- Amazon has put its Fire Tablet Essential Bundle on sale. (amazon.com)
- Pre-order one of the most anticipated novels of 2017: "Startup: A Novel" by Doree Shafir. (amazon.com)
- Tax season is here. Don't wait. Get TurboTax Deluxe from Amazon. (amazon.com)
- Don't miss an episode of the hit show "Billions." Sign-up for a free trial to Showtime on Amazon Channels. (amazon.com)
Funds
- We are only going to see more asset manager mergers. (wsj.com)
- How Morningstar ($MORN) calculates investor returns. (beta.morningstar.com)
- A sign that investment consultants are under pressure. (wsj.com)
- Why we should say goodbye to 12b-1 fees. (kitces.com)
Global
Economy
- Homebuilder confidence is at a 12-year high. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Why the Fed will likely shift forward its plans for rate hikes. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- The nature of academic economics has changed greatly over time. (bloomberg.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Personal finance links: a hedge against surprises. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Our March book link-related round-up. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Here is a recent interview I did with Advisor Websites about writing a financial advisor blog. (advisorwebsites.com)
- What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Research links: sucking up to management. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The death of amateur bracketology and the paradox of skill. (abnormalreturns.com)
