The Best Articles in Venture Capital
The most useful articles in Venture Capital from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
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.
Videos
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Why We Invested $400M into Anduril | Founders Fund's Brian Singerman Full Interview
Brian Singerman is a Partner @ Founders Fund, one of the best-performing funds of the last two decades. Among their portfolio, they have the likes of Airbnb,...
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How to build a breakthrough
…the secret of Backcasting
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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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.
ChatGPT Has Investors Drooling—but Can It Bring Home the Bacon?
The loquacious bot has Microsoft ready to sink a reported $10 billion into OpenAI. It’s unclear what products can be built on the technology.
Women-founded startups raised 1.9% of all VC funds in 2022, a drop from 2021
Last year, U.S. startups with all-women teams received 1.9% (or around $4.5 billion) out of around the $238.3 billion in venture capital allocated, according to the latest PitchBook data.
How much dilution is "normal"?
When are you getting overly diluted?
What Will Happen In 2023
I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. I believe that sometime in the first half of 2023, the central…
Short Articles
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Betting on Things That Never Change
Amazon launched 22 years ago this week. Its first web page shows its early days: What’s neat about this isn’t what’s changed. It’s what’s stayed the same. The line, “One million titles, consistently…
«Each iteration is a front-line battle where you’re exhausted from the last war but overconfident from its victory. So the odds keep stacking against you»
The World Is Run By People No Smarter Than You
Shared by 822, including Tracy Lee | ladyleet, Peter Herger, Ines Bieler
Well-Behaved Bubbles Often Make History
The right kind of bubble brings together the right group of people at the right time — it's a coordinating mechanism that can do a surprising amount of good.
«A bubble is an objectively irrational shared belief in a better potential future … but that doesn’t just describe someone bidding up asset prices; it also describes anyone who chooses to build that kind of future»
Building American Dynamism
To stave off national stagnation in a post-COVID world, technologists need to build companies that tackle America's biggest problems head-on.
Web3 is Bullshit
If you read tech journalism you’ll probably hear the fuzzy term web3 bandied about in the press. Sprinkled around all these articles are all manner of idealistic and utopian ideas about how we can…
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Venture Capital.
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.
Big Ideas in Tech for 2023: An a16z Omnibus
From entertainment franchise games to the precision delivery of medicines, the a16z team highlights over 40 builder-worthy pursuits for the coming year.
The Founder's Field Guide for Navigating This Crisis — Advice from Recession-Era Leaders, Investors and CEOs Currently…
The coronavirus pandemic means that little in these times is stable or predictable, and what worked a few months ago won’t work now. People who start and lead companies need to raise money, bring together the right team and deliver a valuable product or service. But times of crisis test leaders, and entrepreneurs need advice from people who navigated past downturns and can advise them about how to plan and move forward. This field guide from the venture capital firm First Round provides philosophical and practical advice for founders trying to guide new companies through these unusual and difficult times.
Debt is Coming
Ten years from now, what seismic change will we reflect back on and think, “well that was pretty obvious, in retrospect”? Debt is going to finally come to the tech industry. We can hat…
The Lifecycle of Uncomfortable Tech
Major technology shifts often ignite a frenzy of fear. But we've been here before, and there's a roadmap.
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
Thought Leaders
We monitor hundreds of thought leaders, influencers, and newsletters in Venture Capital, including:
Ryan Hoover
Founder of @ProductHunt. Investor at @WeekendFund. Writing about fun(d) stuff at http://signatureblock.co with @vedikaja_in. Say hi! 👋🏼
Sam Altman
@OpenAI
Mark Suster
2x entrepreneur. Sold both companies (last to @salesforce). Now @UpfrontVC looking to invest in passionate entrepreneurs.
Bill Gurley
VC @benchmark, Investor: @grubhub, @zillow, @uber, @stitchfix, @nextdoor, @glassdoor, @goodeggs, @hacker0x01, @solvhealth, @roverdotcom, @instawork
OM
Partner emeritus @Trueventures I was a reporter once. I write about tech @ http://om.co My Tumblr: http://Om.blog. Subscribe to my FREE Newsletter: http://om.co/newsletters/
Publications
We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in Venture Capital, including:
a16z
we invest in software eating the world http://a16z.com/portfolio/ http://a16z.com/podcasts/
Packy McCormick
Boyboss @ Not Boring: http://notboring.co || Not Boring Capital || Advisor @a16z crypto
Scott Galloway
Product of big government @ucla @ucberkeley | Prof Marketing @NYUStern | Right of Center-Left | #ProfGPod @PivotPod | Strategy Sprint http://section4.com
Tomasz Tunguz
Venture capitalist. Student of Startups. Author of Winning with Data http://amzn.to/1UQAMSr. Author of http://tomtunguz.com
avc
This is the Twitter account for the blog AVC.
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