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 growing IPO pipeline for 2019.
Quote of the Day
"The mistake I think we make in the startup/tech/VC sector is that we look at things like Google/Amazon/Facebook/Twitter, or more recently Uber/Airbnb/Slack, and we think that every business can execute the same playbook."
(Fred Wilson)
Startup links
- 3.5 notes from a big exit (BuildingConnected). (hunterwalk.com)
- A big VC roundtable including Reid Hoffman. (barrons.com)
- It's easy to start a business. The challenge is overcoming the dearth of follow-on capital. (techcrunch.com)
- When companies take branding too far. (m.signalvnoise.com)
- Videogame chat maker, Discord, has quadrupled users in the past year. (wsj.com)
- Where technology job growth is fastest in the US. (visualcapitalist.com)
- The biggest startups that failed in 2018. (businessinsider.com)