Venture Capital Bible
Hi,
I want to apply for an VC-internship this summer. Till then I will do the BIWS Fundamentals Course to gain some technical knowledge in modeling. Besides that, can anyone recommend ressources to gain knowledge in VC? Is there any 'must read bilbe' of VC that you guys can recommend?
Greetings
Hey,
I can't post a link, but separate the dots with periods - wwwDOTpdfdriveDOTcom/the-venture-hacks-bible-e8383591DOThtml
Best of luck!
Thx, but doesn't work. Sure you got it right?
Hey, yes I'm sure. Not there are three "DOT"s that need to be changed to periods for the link to work, last one before the HTML
If it still doesn't work google a download for the 1200+ page Venture Hacks Bible.
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When I hire analysts, all I care about are two things: are they smart and do they have passion for building companies.
It might be important express that you understand, know and are involved with the start-up community.
Feel free to PM me.
The top venture capital books include Venture Deals, Mastering the VC Game, and the Business of Venture Capital. All of which are reasonably priced besides the Business of Venture Capital.
Agree with all this - also add Andrew Roman's Masters of Venture Capital (he's also published books on CVCs and ICOs in a similar format).
Books - Anyone recommend any VC books? (Originally Posted: 08/25/2008)
Can anyone recommend any VC books for non-business student? If it matters, I am particularly interested in biotech/pharma. Thanks.
VC and finance of innovation - Andrew Metrick
thanks baller_07
Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins
Vault career guide and Wetfeet career guide in venture capital industry are good choices for you.
Not a book but in case you haven't seen it yet I would check out the movie Something Ventured
VC Book by Brad Feld is really good
Mastering the VC Game - Jeffrey Bussgang
The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
If you are interested in this from perspective of an investor (decisions about buying, selling and growing companies), two very best books on PE/VC that I have read are below (they are more about VC, especially the casebook).
I would admit this is advanced read, not because they are difficult but because they assume you know all the corporate finance / private investing concepts and basics.
VC Books (Originally Posted: 08/31/2007)
What are some good books about the VC industry? Are there VC book equivalents to Ibanking books like Monkey Business or Liar's Poker?
"e Boys" is often talked about. There are a ton of technical books on VC, but eBoys is a more colorful "insider" account, similar to MonkeyB and LiarsP, etc. Has mixed reviews too, just like the others. Needs a grain of salt, just like the others.
well, I just stumbled upon this randomly, so I don't know what others think of it. But the Good Ventures, by John W. Wilson, is quite good--it kind of talks about how vc got started, from the words of entrepreneurs and VCs. It's kind of old--1985.
Maybe I'll check out e Boys too.
Read Investment Visionaries by Peter Tanous. First section is interviews with major players in the VC space. Really good insights on how VC partners think about the market.
Im actually in the process of reading Valley Boy by Tom Perkins, one of the founders of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (Compaq, Google, Sun Micro, EA, Netscape, Amazon).
Its pretty good so far. Mix of venture cap experiences, pre-VC experiences and his life experiences.
Anything a little more educational, such as discussing follow-on rounds of funding, accretion/dilution, valuation of startups, etc? I had started to read "Deal Terms" by Wilmerding, which I thought was good, but wonder if there are better out there.
Venture Capital Suggested Reading (Originally Posted: 07/28/2016)
Interested in learning more about VC. In lieu of using Business Insider or another hokey slide show online, I figured I would consult the WSO community to see what books you may have enjoyed/learned a lot from in the past relating to VC.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
Hey, I have not read many books about VC, but I recently finished a book that I thought was decent: The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital. Its basically interviews with the top GPs from PE and VC, they talk about what each GP attributes to his success.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
I would say some good books would be:
Venture Deals by Feld and Mendelson From Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters The New New Thing by Michael Lewis The Hard Things About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
What I believe is the most comprehensive text is: The Business of Venture Capital by Mahendra something.
Also some blogs to check out: Saastr.com a16z.com the blog andrewchen.co Paul Graham has a 'blog' which has some good stuff in it.
Also consider getting on Quora.com (it was started by the old CTO of Facebook) and has so much resources on Venture Capital from the best VCs, founders and angel investors around.
Wonderful, thanks for your response, this should help a ton.
Were there any particular thread on qora that you found interesting?
Was anyone here able to make the move into VC ultimately? If so would like to hear your story and advice
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