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Here is a list of the best resources I've found to learn about about how to
- Think like a VC
- Assess early stage start-ups
- Run due diligence
May they be helpful to you too 💫
[Acknowledgement: This post is a formatting frankenstein. Someday I'll tidy it up. Blogger makes it so this is not easy and will take me non-trivial time]
Video(s) 📼
Y Combinator’s Startup Investor School
Blog Posts 📝
- How to Be an Angel Investor - Paul Graham
- How to be an angel investor, Part 2 - Venture Hacks
- Black Swan Seed Rounds - Sam Altman
- Suggestions for Angel Investors - Brad Feld
- Angel Investing series - Mark Suster
- Six Principles for Making New Things - Paul Graham
- What We Look for in Founders - Paul Graham
- Black Swan Farming - Paul Graham
- Venture investor’s Playbook series - Chip Hazard, Flybridge
- Invest in Lines, Not Dots - Mark Suster
- How to De-Risk a Startup - Leo Polovets
- Investing Guidelines - Spearhead
Slides 🍔
- The Rise of the Angels - Naval Ravikant
- Angel Investing 101 - David Tetan
- Inside the Black Box of Venture Capital - Mike Maples, Jr
- # VC [R]Evolution: Geeks Got Next - Dave McClure
- Building Startup Ecosystems + Investing in Tech Startups - Dave McClure
Books 📚
- Venture Deals - Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
- Mastering the VC Game - Jeffrey Bussgang
- A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs - Tren Griffin
- The Business of Venture Capital - Mahendra Ramsinghani
- Venture Capital Due Diligence - Justin J. Camp
Courses 👩🏫
- Kauffman Fellows <> Techstars - Venture Deals Online Course --Free; link will be out of date, as new links are posted for each cohort
- UC Berkeley <> NVCA - VC University – costs ~$1,500; this is the only weak recommendation on this list. What it DID provide was hands-on, deep experience building cap tables and understanding cap table mechanics.
Other lists of resources
- Resources for the Venture Capital Industry
- Ron Conway’s Recommended Reading List - via https://startupclass.samaltman.com/lists/readings/
Standard Early Stage Deal Docs
- Y Combinator (SAFE) - https://www.ycombinator.com/documents
- Y Combinator (Series A) - https://www.ycombinator.com/series_a_term_sheet
- Cooley (various, ctrl+f "Finance and Grow") - https://www.cooleygo.com/documents/index-document-generators/
- Orrick (various) - https://www.orrick.com/en/Total-Access/Tool-Kit/Term-Sheet-Creator
- Fenwick (series seed) - https://www.seriesseed.com/posts/documents.html
- NCVA (various) - https://nvca.org/model-legal-documents/
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