Thursdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a big profile of Andreessen Horowitz ten years in.
Location
- You would be crazy to launch a startup in San Francisco these days. (nationalreview.com)
- Controlling costs can mean moving engineering functions to lower cost areas. (avc.com)
Venture capital
- Venture funding is increasingly top-heavy. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- Eight reasons why you shouldn't raise a VC fund. (medium.com)
- Why aren't more fintech unicorns going public? (cbinsights.com)
Companies
- How Teespring revamped its business, recapitalized and returned to health. (axios.com)
- Eero's sale to Amazon ($AMZN) did not reflect a startup success. (theverge.com)
- Are we underestimating the size of the sports gambling industry? (marketplace.org)
Startups
- The best companies have their own cadence. (avc.com)
- Most startups under-communicate with their early investors. (pointsandfigures.com)
- Startups don't have a lot of experience in space planning. (bothsidesofthetable.com)
- Startups usually start as a LLC. The new tax laws now favor C-corps. (wsj.com)
- Digital ad spending is increasingly on mobile. (avc.com)
- Can 'hustle' really be a strategy? (tomtunguz.com)