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 ten biggest funding rounds of the past decade.
Quote of the Day
"If your business had a crummy December, Q4, or even 2019, simply begin again."
(Brad Feld)
Trends
- A look back at eight big mega-trends in startups over the past decade. (avc.com)
- Some 2019 statistics about new unicorns, including 78 in the US. (news.crunchbase.com)
- Private equity continues to edge its way into leading VC rounds. (news.crunchbase.com)
- 2019 was not a great year for consumer hardware startups. (news.crunchbase.com)
Startups
- Some seed stage companies that VCs are keeping an eye on including Full Harvest. (news.crunchbase.com)
- Lessons that Valentina Milanova’s has learned with a company trying to reinvent the tampon. (venturebeat.com)
- How Atmosic Technologies is trying to create a "battery-free IoT revolution." (ft.com)
- Companies are pushing back against California's new AB5 law. (axios.com)
- As startups prioritize profitability, so goes big consumer subsidies. (wsj.com)