VC Resources

My goal with this list of VC resources is to lower the barrier to entry into VC or early stage tech in general. There are more public resources today than ever before, and you don’t need to work in a VC fund or a venture backed company to start to learn about the industry.

Odds are, you’ll like some of the books/blogs/podcasts more than others. Test them out, see which ones you like best, and discard the rest.

I haven’t included our Magma evergreen content in the list, but we have great Latin American specific content on our Magma blog.

Books

Understanding VC / how it works

1. Venture Deals

2. Secrets of Sandhill Road

The history of VC

1. Power Law

Working in a startup

1. The Hard Thing About Hard Things

2. Zero to One

3. Scaling People

Blogs

The below is the list of my favorite VC related blogs. I read most of the new articles each of the below publish, but the real value is going through their archives. Whenever I am doing a deep dive on a specific topic, I check these links to see if they have content on it:

1. Above the Crowd: Bill Gurley’s (General Partner at Benchmark) blog

2. Both Sides of the Table: Mark Suster’s (Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures) blog.

3. Brad Feld’s blog: Brad Feld’s (Co-founder at Foundry) blog

4. NFX blog: Pete Flint’s VC firm blog. Great resource for proptech plus some other great deep dives.

5. The Generalist: My favorite deep dives

6. Paul Graham’s Essays: Paul Graham’s (YC Co-founder) website, with essays going back 20 years.

7. AVC blog: Fred Wilson’s (co-founder of USV Ventures) blog

8. Elad Gil Substack: Elad Gil is an investor and advisor to a bunch of startups. Great substack for deep dives.

9. Fintech Junkie: Frank Rotman’s (Chief Investment Officer and co-founder of QED) blog.

10. Pmarchive: Archive of Marc Andreesen’s old blog. Most of the articles are evergreen.

11. a16z blog: Andreesen Horowitz’ blog. They have a bunch of different articles & podcasts on all different subjects

Video series

1. YC: How to start a startup

Podcasts

1. All In Podcast: I usually skip through the parts when they talk politics, but their conversations on markets are as good as you can find on a podcast.

2. This week in startups: All things happening today in startups.

3. Invest like the best: not all episodes are directly VC, but most are investing related, and they are all worth listening to.

4. Odd Lots: Not VC specific, but a really good pod for finance and markets.

5. The Logan Bartlett Show: Conversations with entrepreneurs and investors.

VC in Latin America

Written

1. Startupeable (spanish)

2. La neta del VC (spanish and english)

3. Latamlist.com (english)

Podcasts

1. Startupeable (spanish)

2. Levantando (spanish)

3. The Frye Show (spanish)