Thursdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a look at how the launch of Andreessen Horowitz ten years ago changed venture.
online pharmacy buy albenza online with best prices today in the USA
Quote of the Day
"If Michael Milken was 25 today — he’d be creating a bond market for unicorn companies."
(Ali Hamed)
Softbank
- Softbank wants to build closer ties between its portfolio companies. (ft.com)
- Softbank's Vision Fund just made its first energy-related investment in Energy Vault. (finance.yahoo.com)
Fintech
- Neo-banks are raising a lot of venture capital. (news.crunchbase.com)
- Flyhome seeks to streamline the home-buying process for its clients as an alternative to the traditional realtor model (fortune.com)
Companies
- Matt Mullenweg on what's next for Tumblr. (theverge.com)
- Some more WeWork numbers from the S-1. (news.crunchbase.com)
- Some people are questioning the data used by disaster response app maker One Concern. (nytimes.com)
The Midwest
- Four key trends impacting the Midwest venture capital space. (medium.com)
- Chicago's Loop is becoming a hot destination for startups. (chicagobusiness.com)
Funding
- What areas of seed finance are hot (and cold). (tomtunguz.com)
- It's not surprising that angel investors get treated like second-class citizens by those higher up on the cap table. (pointsandfigures.com)
Startups
- Is Unicorn status still worth the hype? (npr.org)
- Startups need to hire people with the proper risk tolerances. (avc.com)
- Why 'bridge rounds' are tricky for founders and investors alike. (pointsandfigures.com)
- Five lessons learned from selling a startup. (hbr.org)
- Why DTC startups are drawn to related services. (modernretail.co)
- Tyler Cowen, "Wearing clothes is something almost all of us do every day, for almost the whole day. The great stagnation in clothing needs to end." (finance.yahoo.com)
