The Top 5 Resources to Learn about Venture Capital Investing
When I first started learning about the Venture Capital Industry, I found myself being overwhelmed by the volume of information available ranging from investors’ blogs, magazines, Medium publications, podcasts, books, and courses (often very expensive ones).
Navigating through the huge amount of mediocre content to find relevant and useful material was a long and frustrating process. As I am sure there are other people out there that want to become early-stage investors, I have put together my list of the Top best resources for anyone starting in the industry. I hope this will help speed up the learning process and avoiding wasting time on bad content.
If you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact me. Enjoy!
1. GoingVC
Going VC is a great platform for anyone wanting to learn about the Venture Capital Industry. Their website as well as their Medium publication contain very insightful articles. Topics include investment theses, interesting markets as well as advice as to how to break into the industry. Further, they have recently launched their research library containing great material ranging from valuation models to investment guides. Definitely, a great place to start.
2. Tech Crunch
Tech Crunch is an online newspaper providing news about Startups and Venture Capital investing. It provides very useful information about the VC industry including the latest funding rounds, which Startups raised money from which Funds, and at which conditions. This is a very helpful resource to anyone that wants to familiarise themselves with the main Venture Capital funds out there and which Startups they are currently backing.
3. How to Startup, Stanford University Free Course
In 2015 Sam Altman (President of Y Combinator) ran a course at Standford University about Startups and Venture Capital Funding. This series of lectures is now available on Youtube and I strongly recommend everyone to watch this incredible content. Guest lecturers include Co-founders of Facebook, Airbnb and, Top Tier Venture Capitalists. The course will teach you everything you need to know about the Startups and the VC worlds.
4. Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is an American Investor (with German origins) and Co-founder of a number of very successful companies including PayPal and Palantir. As a Venture Capitalist, he has invested in companies like SpaceX, Spotify, and Lyft. His book Zero to One is one of the best business books I have ever read and it teaches you the mechanism of entrepreneurship and Venture Investing. One of the key ideas in the book is that successful companies need to focus on creating something new and unique instead of wasting time trying to incrementally improve already existing products.
5. The twenty minutes VC podcast
This podcast includes very engaging and insightful interviews with some of the most successful Founders and Venture Capitalists. The content ranges from, how to raise capital to how to decide whether to invest in a company. Definitely worth listening to if you want to hear powerful insights from the most successful people in the world of early-stage investing.
