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 rise of the new space industry.
Quote of the Day
"When you ring a bell for your clients, you’ve delivered with care and empathy. But when you seek to wring every dollar out of a transaction, you’ve probably engaged for the last time."
(Seth Godin)
Companies
- Slack just raised more money at a $7.1 billion valuation. (nytimes.com)
- Uber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi seems to be mostly pulling the right levers. (fortune.com)
- DoorDash raised $250 million to rapidly expand its US footprint. (wsj.com)
Pitching
- Male VCs can be a difficult audience for companies pitching solutions for female medical issues. (statnews.com)
- A great story of one founder's successful pitch. (businessinsider.com)
VC
- Benchmark Capital's 2011 fund has been phenomenally successful, but the firm recognizes the limits of size. (wsj.com)
- The best VC on Instagram. (hunterwalk.com)
Startups
- Fred Wilson, "First movers can and often do maintain their market leadership. But doing so is a lot harder than people think." (avc.com)
- The needs of employees are endlessly complicated. (collaborativefund.com)
- The online mattress wars claim their first casualty. (cnbc.com)
- Meet the guy who closes down a number of failed startups. (theguardian.com)
- How the spare Silicon Valley aesthetic took over the world. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
