Thursdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a look at how to break into venture capital.
Quote of the Day
"Management is not about asking people to do stuff."
(Steven Sinofsky)
Founders
- All successful founders need this one characteristic: intellectual humility. (qz.com)
- What founders can learn from each other, up to a point. (avc.com)
- Entrepreneurs should bootstrap as long as possible to maintain optionality. (medium.com)
Memberships
Venture capital
- Having a thesis about a sector will help you sort the signal from the noise. (avc.com)
- Why you need to understand the (tough) math of micro-VC. (medium.com)
- What role angels, seed and VCs play. (pointsandfigures.com)
Mixed media
- Seedrs, the UK’s second-largest crowdfunding company, will next month launch a secondary market for shares bought on its website. (ft.com)
- Sonos is working on an Alexa tie-in but needs to think bigger. (feld.com)
- Maple, the high profile food delivery startup, is no more. (qz.com)
- The meditation app space seems crowded. (venturebeat.com)
- When fiction becomes reality: "Silicon Valley" star Thomas Middleditch became an angel investor. (bloomberg.com)