• A VC: Blog of Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures in NYC.
• StrictlyVC: Regular newsletter covering VC industry and deals.
• Kauffman Fellows Journal: Content from Kauffman Fellows. Has a tilt toward LP content packaged for VCs.
• Feld’s Thoughts: Brad Feld of Foundry Group and Techstars. One of the authors of Venture Deals, so if you like that style, you’ll like this blog.
• Techcrunch: Covers technology companies, including startups and venture firms.
• Crunchbase Daily: Daily roundup of VC deals.

• PE Resources (various news resources covering PE)
• PE Firms (official twitter feeds for esteemed PE firms)

• VC Resources (various news resources covering VC and emerging technology)
• VC People (personal twitter accounts for esteemed VC’s)
• VC Firms (official twitter feeds for esteemed VC firms)
• Entrepreneurs (personal twitter accounts of esteemed entrepreneurs)

• Startup: Podcast about an entrepreneur starting a podcast company (so meta). Totally behind the scenes and unfiltered. It’s fabulous and a must for entrepreneurs and those interested in VC.
• Masters of Scale: Podcast by Reid Hoffman, Linkedin Co-founder and partner at Greylock. Interviews Silicon Valley founders/execs.
• How I Built This: Podcast that features founders walking through the history of their high-profile companies.
• 20 Minute VC: Host Harry Stebbings interviews prominent VCs and founders.
• Acquired: Features prominent startup founders/CEOs and investors.

• American Investment Council. Industry association for PE.
• National Venture Capital Association. Industry association for VC. Publishes VERY helpful yearbook each year.
• Prequin. Company focused on data and intelligence for the alternatives assets industry. Tends to focus on PE and not VC. Frequently publishes useful free data/reports as marketing pieces.
• Moneytree Survey. Reports on VC investing and fundraising each quarter.
• Pitchbook. Company also focused on PE data. Free reports in the Library (most done with McGladrey) can be useful.

• Angelist is the most prolific platform for angel investments. It’s pushed the envelope on democratizing angel investing and bringing down the cost and complexity of building a fund/track record.
• Republic is another angel investing platform that generally has lower minimum investments.
• Ourcrowd is yet another that also has its own committed funds and a network of scouts around the world that screen investments.
• Getting a seed round from a VC . Excellent overview of the mechanics of a seed deal for those with little or no experience 

Due Diligence Resources:

• Crunchbase: crowdsourced database of venture backed companies, venture financings and VC firms.
• Wayback Machine: shows websites as of a given time in the past. Great to see how management team, messaging, customers, and a lot more has changed over time.
• Patent Search: USPTO Patent search.
• HireRight: Inexpensive, pay as you go, background checks.

• AllRaise : Aims to increase the amount of startup funding going to women. Includes a large number of female VCs. 
• BLCK VC : Aims to increase the number of Black VC investors. 
• Chicago: blend aims to increase diversity in the Chicago VC and Tech Ecosystem.
• First Close Partners : Fund of funds LP backing underrepresented VC fund managers. 
• Historically black colleges and universities provide Fellowships and Mentorship to increase the number of black venture capital investors.
• The Board List : List of diverse talent prepared to serve on boards of directors. 

• How an Internet/SaaS business works . Exceptional overview of the metrics that drive an Internet business. You can also read the original post . 
• This post goes further to help understand what numbers are good and which are bad. The survey includes successful and not successful companies.
• a16z’s startup metrics vol 1 and vol 2  
• 10 Factors to Consider when Evaluating Digital Marketplaces: classic post from Bill Gurley of Benchmark 
• Marketplace Calculator. A template to evaluate marketplace business models. 
• Famous startup pitch decks: actual decks from successful companies 

Anecdotes/War Stories:  

• The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital . Series of anecdotes/profiles covering deals and building PE/VC firms from respected investors. 
• Done Deals . A little dated, but a series of deal anecdotes from some esteemed VCs. 

• General Magic . Chronicles the startup General Magic, started by the Apple Macintosh team which conceived of the smart phone in the early 1990s. 
• Something Ventured . Stories from the original VCs in Silicon Valley. 
• Theranos is accused of a wide-scale fraud.
• Fyre . Follows the development and catastrophic launch of an ambitious music festival. 
• Startup.com . A look into the dot-com era by following a startup’s progress. 
• The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley : Chronicles the rise and fall of the startup Theranos. A due diligence cautionary tale. 

• John Gannon’s blog includes collect of VC jobs and resources, including his email list. 
• GRP Excited to add Sam Rosen to Its Ranks. How Did He Get the Role? Hustle. Here’s the Story.. Great post on what it takes to break into VC. 
• Venture Evolved: Category of VC posts from Professor Heltzer, many of which on getting a job in venture capital. 
• Negotiating the Terms : A product of Going VC focused on women have made the transition to VC. 
• @venturerecruiting on Twitter 
• PE and VC recruiting process 
• How to get a job in VC Part I : Mostly good advice here. 

• Bessemer has made public its internal investment memos on Pinterest, Shopify, yelp and others.
• Venture Dealr Dilution Illustrated : A great visual example of the effect of dilution over time 
• Cooley deal trends : an interactive graph of current deal terms. Excellent resource to know “what’s market” 
• Fenwick and West VC Terms market survey : also a good source for “Market” for venture terms. 
• Y-Combinator Startup documents . More founder-friendly and “lighter” and more common in seed deals. 
• Nvca model legal documents provide a deep understanding of Termssheets.

• A16z ’ s response to WSJ article suggesting A16Z’s performance was trailing.
• Prequin Investor Outlook: Private Equity Outlook : The opinions of 100 leading LPs on the Market and their plans for the next 12 months 
• Cambridge Associates PE and VC benchmarks : Published quarterly by Cambridge Associates, a respected gatekeeper to many institutional LPs. 
• ABCs of non-listed BDCs : Regulations and structure of business development corporations, funds that can raise capital from the public 
• Mistakenly exposed on the Internet.

• This survey of VC tech stacks is super helpful if you ever want to start your own fund or you wind up at a fund that needs more infrastructure. 
• This list of VC tech stack tools is rather comprehensive. 

• ILPA reporting guidelines . Consider this a wish list from LPs. Also includes several helpful templates. 
• FAS 157 . Full rules regarding Financial Accounting Standard 157: Fair Value Measurements. Not for the faint of heart. 
• SBIC form 468 . Annual report form which must be submitted by SBICs to the SBA each year. 
• Form ADV . SEC form required for exempt funds and those funds subject to full reporting requirements. 
• Form PF . SEC form required for larger funds.