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 raise a seed round.
Quote of the Day
"(E)ven when we think we’re immune from disruption we should always have experiments running, as an inexpensive form of insurance."
(Eric Ries)
Founders
- How much do startup founders make in practice? (medium.com)
- Four signs your startup is in trouble. (blog.usejournal.com)
- 10 lessons learned from a novice startup CEO. (medium.com)
- What happens when a parent and child pair up to build a business. (nytimes.com)
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Mutual funds
- Fidelity has pulled back on startup investing except for the recent Compass deal. (bloomberg.com)
- How mutual funds invest in unicorns. (papers.ssrn.com)
Best practices
- You have to build frugality into a startup from the get-go. (appsterhq.com)
- Every meeting should have an owner who shares the agenda ahead of time. (slackhq.com)
- Nobody KNOWS what they are doing. The best make decisions and move on. (m.signalvnoise.com)
- Startups are making a mistake by assiduously avoiding middle-aged consumers. (collaborativefund.com)
VC
- Semil Shah talks about the challenges in raising Haystack IV. (blog.semilshah.com)
- The track record for Regulation A+ IPOs has not been good. (bloomberg.com)
- Can startup investments be made using solely quantitative techniques? (usv.com)
- Five ways to support a startup (without investing). (linkedin.com)