Thursdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a look at why startup founders should call themselves CEO.
Quote of the Day
"To seize a startup’s advantage - focus and speed - and to leverage it to create enduring businesses means wrestling with uncertainty every day, fighting that frustration, and dispatching decisions quickly based on sub-optimal information."
(Tomasz Tunguz)
Lyft vs. Uber
- Why Lyft couldn't capitalize on Uber's many stumbles. (theinformation.com)
- Uber succeeded because the taxi business was stuck in the mud. (bloomberg.com)
Fundraising
- Aaron Harris, "Knowing when and how to fundraise is important, but it’s only worth thinking about when founders need to raise. Any other time spent on it is time that should be spent writing code and talking to users." (blog.ycombinator.com)
- How to build an investor lead list. (blog.bolt.io)
VC
- The many different ways to invest in startups from angel investing to established VC fund. (haystack.vc)
- 10 lessons from being a VC associate. (startupsventurecapital.com)
- Some research on outcomes from a real angel investment portfolio. (medium.com)
Startups
- There are only three stages for a startup. (medium.com)
- A Keith Rabois book list on: the history of Silicon Valley, advice for entrepreneurs and 'general greatness.' (medium.com)
- One of the biggest challenges B2B startups have is pricing: some insights. (firstround.com)
- How CEOs can best utilize a board: asking questions. (collaborativefund.com)
- How co-founders should split equity, equitably. (entrepreneurshandbook.co)
