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 trend of direct listings, a la Spotify and Slack.
Quote of the Day
"Investors don’t make great money investing in asset classes. They make great money investing in businesses."
(Bill Coaker, CIO of the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System)
Fintech
- Blend which digitizes paper processes for more than 150 banks is nearing Unicorn status. (fortune.com)
- MX shows there is big money in clean financial data. (venturebeat.com)
- Monzo is bringing its banking model to the US. (techcrunch.com)
- Online banks are the new hotness. (forbes.com)
- Erik Torenberg talks consumer fintech with Howard Lindzon and Sheel Mohnot of 500 Startups. (howardlindzon.com)
Legal
- Startup, Relativity, counts nearly all of the 200 largest U.S. law firms as users. (chicagobusiness.com)
- How Atrium is like Dropbox but for legal documents. (techcrunch.com)
Companies
- How StockX turned the buying and selling of sneakers into a big business. (nytimes.com)
- How in just a few years Oyo has become one the world' largest hotel chains. (wsj.com)
- TripAction has succeeded by gamifying corporate hotel booking. (forbes.com)
- Pricey e-mail app, Superhuman, is getting a lot of buzz. (nytimes.com)
- Cameo has made it possible to pay a celebrity for a video greeting. (techcrunch.com)
Venture capital
- Under what conditions do female founder raise as much money as men? (avc.com)
- Why the venture capital industry will ultimately be dominated by "a few global venture firms supported by independent seed and early-stage funds with proprietary access to high-potential startups." (techcrunch.com)
- A big profile of Andreessen Horowitz partner Jeff Jordan. (fortune.com)
Startups
- Why it has historically been challenging to startups to get their own credit cards. (youtube.com)
- A lesson in brand building from Radiohead. (forbes.com)
- How the Savannah College of Art and Design "is a relatively little-known program that’s having an outsize impact." (worth.com)
- Why anyone in the startup space should ready Jerry Colonna's "Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up." (avc.com)
