Angel Investing / Venture Capital - Foundational Resources

Here is a list of the best resources I've found to learn about about how to

• Think like a VC
• Assess early stage start-ups
• Run due diligence

May they be helpful to you too 💫 

[Acknowledgement: This post is a formatting frankenstein. Someday I'll tidy it up. Blogger makes it so this is not easy and will take me non-trivial time]

Video(s) 📼

Y Combinator’s Startup Investor School

Blog Posts 📝

• How to Be an Angel Investor - Paul Graham
• How to be an angel investor, Part 2 - Venture Hacks
• Black Swan Seed Rounds - Sam Altman
• Suggestions for Angel Investors - Brad Feld
• Angel Investing series - Mark Suster
• Six Principles for Making New Things - Paul Graham
• What We Look for in Founders - Paul Graham
• Black Swan Farming - Paul Graham
• Venture investor’s Playbook series - Chip Hazard, Flybridge
• Invest in Lines, Not Dots - Mark Suster
• How to De-Risk a Startup - Leo Polovets
• Investing Guidelines - Spearhead

Slides 🍔

• The Rise of the Angels - Naval Ravikant
• Angel Investing 101 - David Tetan
• Inside the Black Box of Venture Capital - Mike Maples, Jr
• # VC [R]Evolution: Geeks Got Next - Dave McClure
• Building Startup Ecosystems + Investing in Tech Startups - Dave McClure

Books 📚

• Venture Deals - Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
• Mastering the VC Game - Jeffrey Bussgang
• A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs - Tren Griffin
• The Business of Venture Capital - Mahendra Ramsinghani
• Venture Capital Due Diligence - Justin J. Camp

Courses 👩‍🏫

• Kauffman Fellows <> Techstars - Venture Deals Online Course --Free; link will be out of date, as new links are posted for each cohort
• UC Berkeley <> NVCA - VC University – costs ~$1,500; this is the only weak recommendation on this list. What it DID provide was hands-on, deep experience building cap tables and understanding cap table mechanics.

Other lists of resources

• Resources for the Venture Capital Industry
• Ron Conway’s Recommended Reading List - via https://startupclass.samaltman.com/lists/readings/ 

Standard Early Stage Deal Docs

• Y Combinator (SAFE) - https://www.ycombinator.com/documents
• Y Combinator (Series A) - https://www.ycombinator.com/series_a_term_sheet
• Cooley (various, ctrl+f "Finance and Grow") - https://www.cooleygo.com/documents/index-document-generators/
• Orrick (various) - https://www.orrick.com/en/Total-Access/Tool-Kit/Term-Sheet-Creator
• Fenwick (series seed) - https://www.seriesseed.com/posts/documents.html
• NCVA (various) - https://nvca.org/model-legal-documents/