Thursdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a look at the importance of meeting ship dates.
Scooters
- Uber has invested in another form of transport: this time in scooter company Lime. (nytimes.com)
- A closer look at the economics of scooters. (qz.com)
Research
- The data show that successful entrepreneurs are older than commonly thought. (hbr.org)
- "The Stanford Venture Capital Initiative, which has been steadily amassing a deep and unprecedented database designed to figure out how the VC world really works." (gsb.stanford.edu)
VC
- Index Ventures is a uniquely global venture capital firm. (nytimes.com)
- Family offices are investing more, earlier in venture capital. (institutionalinvestor.com)
Startups
- The stickiness of stakeholders is key to a firm's success. The challenge is measuring when it may be fading away. (collaborativefund.com)
- The peril of raising too much capital: the case of FanDuel. (businessinsider.com)
- The definition of a co-working space is changing rapidly. (nytimes.com)
- It's now possible to build a big company off of a social media personality. (forbes.com)
- Perfectionism is a killer for entrepreneurs. (medium.com)
