Thursdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a look at herding effects in equity crowdfunding.
Quote of the Day
"Kindness, in one word, is a business model, an approach to strangers and a platform for growth."
(Seth Godin)
VC
- Lessons learned from raising the Haystack IV fund. (blog.semilshah.com)
- Why the second quartile of companies in a fund are the most challenging to deal with. (avc.com)
Startups
- A review of 2017 doesn't show a lot of great news for startups. (blog.semilshah.com)
- Why fast followers have a hard time getting funded. (medium.com)
- Five pieces of advice for anyone contemplating a startup. (medium.com)
- UberEats is becoming an increasingly important part of Uber's business. (businessinsider.com)
- Will Oremus, "It’s a lot easier to build an effective Uber equivalent for a single city or country than it would be to build an effective Google, Facebook, or Apple equivalent." (slate.com)