HISTORY

• Something Ventured
  Documentary on the creation of the US venture capital industry.
  
• Secret History of Silicon Valley
  Talk on the creation of Silicon Valley, as an entrepreneurial ecosystem.
  
• The Money Man
  Forbes article from 1-nov-68 on the rise of Arthur Rock, VC’s founding father.
  
• US VC genealogy
  Mapping of VC firms, their founders, and some of their most interesting investments.
  
• Public to Private Equity
  A multi-decade look at public equities, buyouts, and venture capital in the U.S.
  
• The Men Who Built America
  Miniseries on how the industrial innovations of Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, and Ford built the first American business empires.
  
• West Coast Venture Capital
  Chart mapping 25 years of the people and companies that set the modern venture capital industry.
  

MUST READ

• On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt
  
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel
• The Hard Things About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
• Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital by Carlota Perez
• A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs by Tren Griffin
• The Startup Owner Manual by Steve Blank
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• Making Silicon Valley
  Silicon Valley's development of unique competencies in manufacturing, in product engineering, and in management.
• Creative Capital by Spencer Ante

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Cheatsheet
  1-pager on where/how to play. 1-pager on risks involved.
• The Struggle
  Start a company? If you need inspiring words, you should not do it.
• Breaking into VC
  A 2-pager explaining some of the key value-add skills of a VC.
• Blitzscaling
  The official collection for Stanford’s CS183C: Technology-enabled Blitzscaling.
• Power Law
  A step by step model to show the effect of the power law in venture portfolio construction.
• Cost of missing a winning deal
  AngelList data shows superior performance by someone who blindly invests in every credible deal.
• Network Effects
  A manual that communicates the importance, variety, and complexity of network effects.
• Acqui-hiring
  A paper offering one of the first formal-description on the acqui-hire phenomenon.