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Tech and VC Career Resources
We've benefitted greatly from community resources about tech and VC, and we wanted to share some of our favorites with you! Please email us at [email protected] with anything we missed - we'd love to make this list as comprehensive as possible.
Articles - Venture Capital Recruiting 💰
How to Find a VC Internship by Justine & Olivia Moore (CRV)
Playing Fake VC by Matt Turck (First Mark)
From Cold Email to VC Internship by Jason Chen (Scale Venture Partners)
Unconventional Ways to Get an Entry-Level VC Role by Crystal Huang (NEA)
How to Break into VC as an MBA by Adina Davis (ex-Red Sea Ventures, Rough Draft Ventures)
How to Get a Job in Venture Capital in Fast Company
Transitioning from Business Development to VC by Alexa McLain (Matrix Partners)
How to Get a Job in Venture Capital (revisited) by Seth Levine (Foundry Group)
Breaking into Investing & Product Management by Aditi Maliwal (Google)
Getting VC Experience While Still in School by Ali Afridi (ex-Lightbank)
How to Get Started as a VC Analyst by Charlie O'Donnell (Brooklyn Bridge Ventures)
How Do You Get a Job in VC? by Sarah Downey (Accomplice)
Converting an Intern Role to Full-Time VC by Abby Lyall (Quake Capital)
The One Ingredient Required to Get Into Venture Capital by Semil Shah (Haystack)
How to be a VC Without Any Capital by Gaurav Jain (Founder Collective)
Podcasts 🎙
Twenty-Minute VC - interviews with founders and investors on the tech market and fundraising process
The Pitch - real pitches from early-stage startups looking for funding, with investor feedback afterwards
How I Built This - narrative interviews with founders of some of today's most iconic companies
Acquired - in-depth analysis of tech acquisitions and IPOs
Equity - TechCrunch weekly podcast wrapping up the news in tech and VC
Venture Stories - combines founder and investor interviews with "Inside VC" briefings
ProductHunt Radio - discussions on the future of tech/culture, featuring founder and investor guests
996 Podcast - focus on US/China cross border tech from VC firm GGV
Function - discussions with developers exploring the tech choices behind the world's best-known apps
Pro Rata -ten-minute daily podcast from tech reporter Dan Primack covering top headlines
a16z - discussions with Andreessen Horowitz investors and entrepreneurs about tech trends
Decrypted - explores what happens behind closed doors in tech, from discrimination to hacking
Recode Decode - hard-hitting interviews by Kara Swisher with execs, politicians, celebrities, and others
MarketSnacks Daily - daily update on tech and finance headlines
Founder Chats - authentic interviews with tech entrepreneurs about how they run their businesses
Y Combinator - interviews about tech in business, research, and art with people shaping the future
Making the Brand - interviews with VC Billy Draper of founders of consumer brands
Masters of Scale - investor Reid Hoffmann interviews founders on how they grew their companies
Twitter Accounts📱
Andrew Chen - partner at a16z, tweets about growth strategies and investment themes
Leo Polovets - partner at Susa Ventures, tweets product, team, and investment thoughts
Ryan Caldbeck -CEO of CircleUp, tweets about CPG and D2C brands
Natalie Dillon - investor at Maveron, tweets about consumer stats and millennial/Gen Z culture
Christina Farr - CNBC reporter, tweets about healthcare
Taylor Lorenz - The Atlantic reporter, tweets about Gen Z trends and internet culture
Connie Chan - partner at a16z, tweets about consumer and cross-border trends
Blake Robbins - investor at Ludlow Ventures, tweets about e-sports and mediaBONUS Instagram account - @thingtesting - Jenny from Backed VC reviews D2C products
Blogs and Newsletters 📰
Accelerated - we had to include our own newsletter! Weekly tech and VC news and jobs/internships
Hunter Walk - blog from Homebrew partner about investing and entrepreneurship
Andrew Chen - blog from a16z partner about growth, metrics, and network effects
Tomasz Tunguz - blog from Redpoint partner about enterprise software
Nicole Quinn - blog from Lightspeed partner about consumer trends
Stratchery - fantastic blog on tech and media trends from analyst Ben Thompson
Strictly VC - daily roundup of tech and VC news from TechCrunch editor Connie Loizos
Pro Rata - daily roundup of tech and VC news from Axios's Dan Primack
Term Sheet - daily roundup of tech and VC news from Fortune's Polina Marinova
Lean Luxe - "modern luxury" brands and trends (lots of D2C) - they have an awesome Slack group!
Retales - thoughts on the future of retail from Bain Capital's Magdalena Kala
2PM - blog and newsletter on brands, data, and e-commerce
HotPod - weekly briefing on everything related to podcasts
Chain Letter - blockchain and crypto newsletter from the MIT Technology Review
Movements - urban mobility and transportation blog and newsletter
Femstreet - news on and thoughts from women in tech and venture capital
First Round Review - tactical advice via in-depth interviews with founders and operators