Startup links: sticky stakeholders

Scooters

• Uber has invested in another form of transport: this time in scooter company Lime. (nytimes.com)
• A closer look at the economics of scooters. (qz.com)

Research

• The data show that successful entrepreneurs are older than commonly thought. (hbr.org)
• "The Stanford Venture Capital Initiative, which has been steadily amassing a deep and unprecedented database designed to figure out how the VC world really works." (gsb.stanford.edu)

VC

• Index Ventures is a uniquely global venture capital firm. (nytimes.com)
• Family offices are investing more, earlier in venture capital. (institutionalinvestor.com)

Startups

• The stickiness of stakeholders is key to a firm's success. The challenge is measuring when it may be fading away. (collaborativefund.com)
• The peril of raising too much capital: the case of FanDuel. (businessinsider.com)
• The definition of a co-working space is changing rapidly. (nytimes.com)
• It's now possible to build a big company off of a social media personality. (forbes.com)
• Perfectionism is a killer for entrepreneurs. (medium.com)