Thursdays at Abnormal Returns are all about startup and venture capital links. You can check out last week’s links including a look at why ideas that seem wrong at the time work later on.

Quote of the Day

"When there is too much burn and unrealistic growth expectations, weird things happen. Getting to a sustainable, repeatable, and logical cycle of growth and cost is what the best performing companies do."

(Craig Walker, CEO of Dialpad)

Chart of the Day

A look at the distribution of the size of Series A deals in the US

(news.crunchbase.com)