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Startup Digest

Venture Capital

June 30, 2017

Here are the top articles and videos about venture capital from the last week.

Startup Digest Venture Capital is curated by:
Yohei Nakajima

Yohei Nakajima - Director of Pipeline, Techstars

Contact Yohei Nakajima at yohei.nakajima@startupdigestmail.com

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Conventional Wisdom Says 90% of Startups Fail. Data Says Otherwise.

Erin Griffith - Fortune

Article title's a little misleading, IMPO but still good data in here.

Venture capitalists may face a cash crunch as more technology startups stay private longer

Quartz

It takes 11 years for tech firms to IPO today, up from 5 to 8 in 2000.

Doing The Heavy Lifting

Fred Wilson - AVC

Why founders should check for references on their potential investors.

Male and Female Entrepreneurs Get Asked Different Questions by VCs — and It Affects How Much Funding They Get

Harvard Business Review

Analyzing VC questions toward men vs women.

The latest in the Binary Capital blowup — and what it means for startup investing

TechCrunch

TLDR; don't be an @...

Population Paradox

Enis Hulli

This explains the disproportionate success stories from smaller countries like Estonia, Sweden and Israel; compared to Germany or Spain.

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