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Podcasts
- 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.
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Recruiting Advice
- 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 pos...
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Email Newsletters and Blogs: VC
- A VC: Blog of Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures in NYC.
- StrictlyVC: Regular newsletter covering VC industry and deals.
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Documentaries
- 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.
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Twitter: VC
- VC Resources (various news resources covering VC and emerging technology)
- VC People (personal twitter accounts for esteemed VC’s)
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Due Diligence
Due Diligence Resources:
- Crunchbase: crowdsourced database of venture backed companies, venture financings and VC firms.
- Wayback Machine: sho...
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Trade Associations/Industry Data
- American Investment Council. Industry association for PE.
- National Venture Capital Association. Industry association for VC. Publishes VERY helpful
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Twitter: PE
- PE Resources (various news resources covering PE)
- PE Firms (official twitter feeds for esteemed PE firms)
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Get Started on Your Own as an Angel
- 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.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- 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.
- Fi...
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Business Models
- 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 ...
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Books
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...
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Deals and Terms
- 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 reso...
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Fundraising/LPs
- 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 qua...
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Fund Operations
- 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.
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Reporting
- 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...
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Email Newsletters and Blogs: PE
- Buyouts (Reuters)
- PE Hub (occassionally mixes in VC news)
- Private Equity News (Dow Jones)
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