Stay Up To Date With All Things NYC Startups and Venture Capital
I’m writing this geared towards members of NYU Stern’s Entrepreneurship & Startup Association, but I think this can be helpful to mostly anyone.
For many reasons, it’s important to be fluent in the industries you’re interested in and stay on top of all things startups and tech. Tactically, this will set you up for success with recruiting. More importantly, though, it will make you a more informed person.
A common mistake I see (and one that I have made) is joining too many of these, getting overwhelmed, and then not reading any of them. I suggest being choosy about them or sampling them if past editions are on a website or Substack.
This is a living list, so if you have changes to suggest or ones to add, let me know by tweeting at me @hillarycbush or leaving a comment on this post.
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NYU Specific Newsletters
- NYU Entrepreneurial Institute’s newsletter is a must for anyone attending or involved with NYU. It’s an impressive stream of workshops, speakers, accelerators, and more.
- The Berkley Center also has a great weekly newsletter for anyone involved with Stern specifically.
Tech and Startup Newsletters
- Morning Brew sends you a daily morning digest of tech, business, and politics.
- Get a weekly digest of the biggest tech and startup stories with AngelList Weekly.
- Femstreet writes an excellent newsletter focused on women that are leading and shaping the future of tech.
- Axios Pro Rata: The best high-level overview of activity in the industry. If you read just one newsletter, read Pro Rata. Axios has a ton of newsletters on different topics that you can find here.
- Sourcery: Weekly list of dozens of deals that occurred that week.
- Confluence.VC: Get an overview of happenings in VC with some highlighted roles.
- StrictlyVC: Excellent source of recent fundraising which will tell you who is about to hire a ton of new employees.
- Accelerated: VC and Startup news, see internships and roles at the bottom.
- Tom Tunguz of RedPoint writes a blog and newsletter that focuses on SaaS startups, data analysis, data-driven investing, and more.
NYC Startup and VC Ecosystem Newsletters
- Gary’s Guide
- NYC Startup Digest
- Charlie O’Donnell’s This Week in NYC Innovation offers the bestweekly digest of tech events and happenings in New York.
- AlleyWatch: covers the New York technology, startup, and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
- NY Tech Meetup holds monthly meetups featuring live demos from tech companies. NYC Bio Meetup holds similar events with a focus on biotech.
Topic-specific / essay style Newsletters
- Lenny Rachitsky writes an excellent newsletter on product management, tech, business models, and more.
- Ben Thompson’s Stratechery covers broad topics beyond VC, but his thoughtful analysis will be valuable as you learn to conduct your own analysis or want to do a deep dive on an industry he covers
- AVC: Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures shares thoughts and news in a regular newsletter.
- Andrew Chen of a16z writes essays on growth at early stage startups and other topics.
- Both Sides of the Table: Perspectives — often tactical — from entrepreneur-turned-VC Mark Suster.
- Paul Graham: Essays and blog posts from Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, on early stage startups and investing.
- For people interested in Digital Health, check out Out-Of-Pocket.
Jobs and Internships Newsletters
- Lenny also lists jobs at startups here.
- All Raise has a great newsletter to accelerate the success of female funders and founders.
- ExitUp: Specific roles organized by industry across the country.
- OneJob: A curated newsletter highlighting amazing jobs. Mostly focused on full-time, but you’ll hear about amazing companies.
- Accelerated: VC and Startup news, see internships and roles at the bottom.
- Subscribe to the job boards of VC portfolios you admire. There’s a list in this article.
Some Twitter accounts to follow
