Resources to learn about the tech industry?

Looking to join a tech coverage group as an associate. What resources should I use to get up to date on everything that is going on?

Any specific equity research publishings or articles to look at?

Should I focus on a specific sector within tech like fintech or education because tech is so large or would a general understanding be enough?

How much am I expected to know?

Thanks

My background is in Energy, but I want to demonstrate enough knowledge that they will ignore my Energy background

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Tech crunch is probably best for a finance perspective. Hacker News can be useful or it can be full of snobs wanting to seem cool by using obscure tech. A lot of people also write Medium articles that have great info. MIT tech review is cool and useful.

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While TechCrunch is the most comprehensive - Alex Wilhelm could use a brief stint as a investment banking analyst covering tech. Its disgusting watching a journalist try to write about finance. Its just not good analysis. At the same time I pay up to subscribe to ExtraCrunch as so long as you overlook the financial analysis it is good coverage and has good product discussion. 

 

i would pick one subsector, having multiple is great but few ppl in tech focus on more than one

education is a specific subsegment of digital media but if you genuinely care then you should go for it

it all depends on your definition of tech, if you're risk averse i would say software, if you like listening to techcrunch then software and media, if you're into hardware then semis. just pick one

and dont forget to pinroll your jeans

 
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