Thursdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a look at a successful homegrown Midwest venture capital firm.
Quote of the Day
"In other words, large financings are typically very dilutive, even if on paper they appear to be evidence of massive value accretion and misleadingly little dilution."
(Eric Paley)
Outside the Valley
- Why venture investors have to look outside the Valley for investments. (haystack.vc)
- On the challenges of building (and funding) a company far away from the Valley. (pointsandfigures.com)
Venture capital
- How Google's VC arm GV uses big data to make investment decisions. (axios.com)
- Why a lot of people wash out of VC: they don't understand the job before getting into it. (hunterwalk.com)
- Why investing in Juul isn't appropriate for VCs. (om.co)
Advice
- Mike Maples Jr., "It’s like the Tortoise and the Hare. Fast Money gets the positive attention and headlines in the beginning, but being patient and right drives the biggest outcomes." (medium.com)
- Fred Wilson, "You are never not raising money when you are running a company or any sort of business endeavor that requires capital, which is basically everything." (avc.com)
- A talk with Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz about scaling startups. (a16z.com)
Startups
- 2009-2012 was the golden age for consumer startups. Can they make a comeback? (medium.com)
- Seed round valuations are showing signs of froth. (feld.com)
- It will be interesting to see what kind of uptake Opportunity Zone funds get. (forbes.com)
- Seven lessons learned from selling your company to a much larger one. (medium.com)
- Research shows that non-stop flights to Silicon Valley help increase venture capital flows. (dlib.bc.edu)
- WeWork is going vegetarian. (nytimes.com)
