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 Series A crunch.
Chart of the Day
“One more mattress start-up and i’m calling the top.” (via @bmclannahan)
Startups
- Monetize earlier and scale slower. (byrslf.co)
- The numbers any startup founder needs to know cold. (hackernoon.com)
- How companies should handle the annual planning process. (avc.com)
- Companies need to build their boards deliberately not haphazardly. (feld.com)
Companies
- On-demand delivery startups are on their way out. (mobile.reuters.com)
- AlphaSense is showing that search built for a particular vertical can be a viable business. (thefinancialrevolutionist.com)
Venture
- The bigger the VC fund the bigger the exit required. (medium.com)
- Have angels muscled in on the VC crowd? (pointsandfigures.com)
- Venture debt is experiencing a renaissance. (bloomberg.com)
- Research shows VCs bet on the jockey not the horse. (venturebeat.com)
- The kind of entrepreneur you want to help. (m.signalvnoise.com)
- Fred Wilson's intro to "Venture Deals 3.0." (avc.com)