Thursdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a look at ageism in Silicon Valley.
Quote of the Day
"Anyone can learn to invest well in startups. But you do have to learn how to do it and then you have to work hard to do it right, every time."
(Jerry Neumann)
Companies
- WeWork wants to become a one-stop shop for all your business needs. (qz.com)
- The origin story of Apoorva Mehta of Instacart. (overcast.fm)
- A Q&A with the co-founders of theSkimm. (businessinsider.com)
- Why Quora is worth $1.8 billion. (quora.com)
Profiles
- A Q&A with high-profile New York-based angel investor Joanne Wilson aka "Gotham Gal." (shift.newco.co)
- A nice profile of Semil Shah of Haystack. (blog.angel.co)
- Why Bill Gurley only makes a couple of investments a year. (thewaiterspad.com)
Membership
Venture capital
- Roger Ehrenberg, "Venture is a business where it is easy to confuse luck with skill, but the one way of distinguishing between the two is persistence." (hackernoon.com)
- Venture capital is a capacity business. (continuations.com)
- Why big funds are not really in the venture business they are "private hedge funds." (venturebeat.com)
- Two main reasons why VCs "miss" seed deals. (hunterwalk.com)
- How investors evaluate management teams. (medium.com)
- VCs are investing more in data analytics to enhance investment decisions. (wsj.com)
Startups
- Mark Suster, "When you run a startup you’re always on borrowed time." (bothsidesofthetable.com)
- Rising seed round prices make subsequent decisions more difficult. (pointsandfigures.com)
- Entrepreneurs should pick VCs who are the best partner, not the highest valuation. (medium.com)
- The pitfalls a team faces after closing a funding round. (medium.com)
Advice
- Starting is easy. Finishing is hard. (avc.com)
- Startups rarely file for bankruptcy. That might be changing. (fortune.com)
- The best time to keep a customer is before they leave. (businessinsider.com)
- How a "returnship" can help stay-at-home parents re-enter the workforce. (forbes.com)
- A big list of VC podcasts. (fortune.com)
- Be wary when successful people tell you how to succeed. (xkcd.com)
