- [How to Get Startup Ideas](http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html) Paul Graham

[great collection](http://paulgraham.com/articles.html), for instance - [How you know](http://paulgraham.com/know.html), etc.
[Do Things That Don’t Scale](https://genius.com/Paul-graham-do-things-that-dont-scale-annotated)

- [Albert Wenger](http://www.usv.com/about/albert-wenger)  https://continuations.com/

[Grit and Purpose](https://continuations.com/post/178492632055/uncertainty-wednesday-grit-and-purpose)  Set intermediate goals and look for the purpose/values
[Fear and Acceptance](https://continuations.com/post/178279254210/uncertainty-wednesday-fear-and-acceptance)
[Computers and Deflation](https://continuations.com/post/77178317188/computers-and-deflation)
[lbert Wenger: Union Square Ventures – Towards the Knowledge Age and the World After Capital](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/epicenter-learn-about-crypto-blockchain-ethereum-bitcoin/id792338939?i=1000470076165)
[Innovation: Perez vs Thiel (Optimism vs Pessimism)](https://continuations.com/post/11272136554/innovation-perez-vs-thiel-optimism-vs-pessimism)

- [Benedict Evans](https://www.ben-evans.com/)

[Not even wrong - ways to dismiss technology](https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/5/24/not-even-wrong-ways-to-dismiss-technology)

- [Jerry Neumann's Blog](http://reactionwheel.net/)  Reaction Wheel

[Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s](http://reactionwheel.net/2015/01/80s-vc.html) January 8, 2015    Jerry Neumann
> Then you can only have one: the only thing VCs can control that will **improve their outcomes is having enough guts to bet on markets that don’t yet exist**. Everything else is noise.

[Power Laws in Venture Portfolio Construction](http://reactionwheel.net/2017/12/power-laws-in-venture-portfolio-construction.html), which I like a lot. See also [How to Win in Venture Capital: Focus on the Fat Tails](https://blog.usejournal.com/power-laws-in-venture-capital-why-the-long-tail-matters-22e057c6fa34) by Quantified VC

[Venture’s Role: A Power Law Economy…and Society](https://medium.com/@pmontee/ventures-role-a-power-law-economy-and-society-f128f6691dc5) Patrick Montague
> An established rule that governs venture investing has become more prevalent in the wider economy, with broad societal ramifications.

- 2014 article in Economist [Startup explosion](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2528/The%2Bstartup%2Bexplosion%2B-%2BEconomist.pdf)

- [Andrew Chen at a16z](https://a16z.com/author/andrew-chen/)

[downloads page](https://andrewchen.co/downloads-5e274083/?utm_source=andrewchen&utm_campaign=2f90db84b6-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c1fae7e415-2f90db84b6-91877209)

[What do you look for in an investment?](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/3060/Fwd%2BWhat%2Bdo%2Byou%2Blook%2Bfor%2Ban%2Binvestment%2BHow%2Blong%2Bshould%2Ba%2Bfounder%2Bbe%2Bwithout%2Bsalary%2BAnd%2Bother%2BQA.htm)

- [Alex Iskold](https://alexiskold.net/) THOUGHTS ON TECH STARTUPS AND VENTURE CAPITAL


- [Fred Wilson - AVC blog](https://avc.com/)

[Numerai and Polychain](https://avc.com/2016/12/numerai-and-polychain/), and [ICOs and VCs](https://avc.com/2017/06/icos-and-vcs/)


- [Daniel Gross](https://dcgross.com/)
> I’m the founder of Pioneer. I also run Y-Combinator’s AI program. Previously I was a Director at Apple via the acquisition of Cue, which I co-founded.

[Academia: An Outsider’s Perspective](https://dcgross.com/academia-outsiders-perspective/)

- [Brad Feld](https://www.foundrygroup.com/team/brad-feld/) and his [FeldThoughts](https://www.feld.com/)

[https://www.askthevc.com/](https://www.askthevc.com/)

[My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist](https://www.feld.com/archives/2014/01/first-experience-venture-capitalist.html)

- Max Niederhofer    [Truth, Love, and Growth: the strange, strange values at the core of Sunstone Capital](http://blog.maxniederhofer.com/truth-love-and-growth-the-strange-strange-values-at-the-core-of-sunstone-capital)

[Fear and loathing in venture capital](http://blog.maxniederhofer.com/fear-and-loathing-in-venture-capital)

- Seth Levine [VCventure](https://sethlevine.com)

[May 20, 2005 - How to become a venture capitalist](https://www.sethlevine.com/archives/2005/05/how-to-become-a-venture-capitalist.html)


[a16z returns](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2449/Andreessen%2BHorowitz%2Breturns.pdf) ---
[Sequoia teardown](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/3446/Sequoia%2Bteardown_.pdf) versus [A16z teardown](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/3447/A16z%2Bteardown.pdf)

- [Vijay Pande](https://a16z.com/author/vijay-pande/#1) healthcare and AI

- Vinod Khosla and Khosla Ventures [Risk matrix](https://www.khoslaventures.com/risk-matrix)

[Knowing whose advice to take and on what topic is the single most important decision an entrepreneur can make](https://www.khoslaventures.com/team)