The Best Articles in Venture Capital
The most useful articles and videos in Venture Capital from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
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Top 5 Venture Capital Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Venture Capital by Refind users in 2024 so far.
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Marc Andreessen - AI, Crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial Revolution
My podcast with the brilliant Marc Andreessen is out!We discuss:- how AI will revolutionize software- whether NFTs are useless, & whether he should be fundin...
The cult of the founder CEO
Big Tech is fascinated by founder-CEOs. But the very qualities that makes them so dynamic and attractive to venture capitalists can mean they’re not always t...
Peter Thiel : Technology Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist
SUBSCRIBE for more speakers ► http://is.gd/OxfordUnionOxford Union on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theoxfordunionOxford Union on Twitter: @OxfordUnionW...
Should Your Startup Bootstrap or Raise Venture Capital?
Within the world of startups, you'll find lots of discourse online about the experiences of founders bootstrapping their startup versus the founders who have...
How This Billionaire Founder Finds +$20B Business Ideas (#495)
Episode 495: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk with Kevin Ryan, Founder and CEO of AlleyCorp, an in...
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How To Invest In Startups
There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder. But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor. Before going any further, I should point out that this is a...
How to Build a Startup & Understanding Venture Capital — Both Sides of the Table
Many first-time founders seek advice when thinking about what ideas would be great for a startup company and receive the wrong advice that…
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The Importance (and Shortcomings) of a Data-Driven Approach in Venture Capital
Introduction We live in a world where the quantity and quality of data continue to compound at an exponential rate. Within asset management, data-driven or quant strategies are certainly not new yet…
The woman who raised $1 billion
Ophelia Brown is the founder of Blossom Capital, a venture capital firm which has raised around $1 billion (£789 million) from investors since she launched it in the UK in 2018. Blossom uses the money…
The ‘Bill Gates problem’: do billionaire philanthropists skew global health research?
Personal priorities are often trumping real needs and skewing where charitable funding goes.
Inspired Capital secures $330M fund to take venture capital ‘back to the studs’
With the new fund, Inspired Capital wrote a manifesto on how the venture capital firm thinks, what it believes in and what it is looking for.
Short Articles
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The Faux First Mover Advantage
Being first isn’t as good as people thinking you were first
Review: Chris Dixon's Read Write Own
Prominent crypto venture capitalist Chris Dixon provides an unconvincing bible for blockchain solutionists.
The 3-Person Unicorn Startup
With the next generation of AI tools, just 3 people can scale a software company to $100M in revenue. Here's what those teams look like.
Marketplaces in the Age of AI
Every new platform changes how and where transactions happen. Now, we believe gen AI will be the latest revolution in marketplaces.
«2 main ways that AI will impact supply»
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Venture Capital.
Andreessen Horowitz saw the future — but did the future leave it behind?
Disruptors, disrupted
The Art of Early-Stage Investing
Rules of Thumb for Evaluating Market, Product, & Founder
Who Owns the Generative AI Platform?
Generative AI will have a massive impact in the software industry and beyond. The goal of this post is to map out the market dynamics and business models.
«So far, we’ve had a hard time finding structural defensibility anywhere in the stack, outside of traditional moats for incumbents.»
The Wisdom of Patrick Collison
A newsletter for the ambitious. Learn from the world's best founders through deep dives sent every Sunday.
From BigCo to Startup: 20 Tips for Evaluating Early-Stage Companies & Making the Leap
Considering moving from BigCo to startup? We crowdsourced a tactical guide for first-time startup job-seekers on how to evaluate career opportunities at early-stage companies.
Podcasts
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Reid Hoffman | Crisis Management
A re-broadcast of our episode featuring Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman in conversation with his Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh. In this episode (originally recorded in May 2022), Hoffman and
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