Reading Lists
Venture Capitalists
Discuss how they think, what kinds of deals are compelling, trends in the market, hot new companies, deal terms, etc.
A VC – Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures
Both Sides of the Table – Mark Suster, GRP Partners
Continuations – Albert Wenger, Union Square Ventures
Ben’s Blog – Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz
Essays – Paul Graham, Y-Combinator
PMarca Blog – Marc Andreessen, Andreessen Horowitz
Scott Weiss – Andreesen Horowitz
Master of 500 Hats – Dave McClure, 500 Startups
Redeye VC – Josh Kopelman, First Round Capital
What is Left – Chris Sacca, Lowercase Capital
Venture Hacks – Babak Nivi & Naval Ravikant
Entrepreneur Blogs
Keeping track of people who make, say, and do interesting things in the tech world
Anil Dash – New York based, writes about the intersection of tech and culture
Eric Ries – former CTO of IMVU, brought the lean methodology to startups and created a movement
John Britton – New York hacker at large, working on P2PU University & Mozilla Foundation
Leah Culver – founder of Convore, creator of Hurl.it, and other cool stuff
Marcelo Calbucci – Seattle-based cofounder of EveryMove, sold Seattle 2.0 to Geekwire in 2011
Naval Ravikant – AngelList and VentureHacks cofounder, angel investor, advisor to several companies
Poornima Vijayashanker – founder of BizeeBee, previously first engineer at Mint.com
Startup News & Community
Keep up with the latest startup news around the world
The Usual Suspects: TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable, Venture Beat,
The Kernel – magazine started by Milo Yiannopolis to take an inside look at the U.K. startup scene
Arctic Startup – startup news from Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia and Sweden
The Rude Baguette – funny and irreverent French tech blog written in English
Great Articles
Single pieces of writing that should never be forgotten
How To Get PR For Your Startup: Fire Your PR Company by Jason Calacanis
Marketing Blogs
Marketing bloggers who are legit, helpful, and interesting
Market by Numbers – Brant Cooper
Books
You know, those things you read on a Kindle or an iPad…
The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Thinking and Writing – Barbara Minto
Tribal Leadership
The Marketing Playbook – John Zagula
The Box
The Goal

