[The Economist explains - The startup explosion](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2460/The%2Bstartup%2Bexplosion%2B-%2BEconomist.pdf)
[From leafy to lofty](https://www.economist.com/special-report/2014/01/18/from-leafy-to-lofty)
[Venture capital is adapting itself](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2465/From%2Bleafy%2Bto%2Blofty%2B-%2BVenture%2Bcapitalists.pdf) to the new startup landscape
[10.22.18 AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF SILICON VALLEY DISRUPTION](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2459/An%2BAlternative%2BHistory%2Bof%2BSilicon%2BValley%2BDisruption%2B%2BWIRED.pdf)
## VC history
[Predicting the Future of Venture Capital](https://medium.com/@neildevani/predicting-the-future-of-venture-capital-c674f0cf5300)
A Super Fast Overview and History of Tech VC: Part V
[OpenLP](http://www.openlp.com/home/)
[The Private-Market Investing Revolution](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2759/McKinsey%2BPerspective%2B-%2BThe%2BRevolution%2Bin%2BPrivate%2BMarket%2BInvesting.pdf) by McKinsey
- [It Ain’t Broke: The Past, Present, and Future of Venture Capital](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2760/kaplanlerner.jacf.pdf)
## reviews
[The State of European Tech - 2018](https://s3.amazonaws.com/knowen-production/big_attachments/c581e2201976586d642870236839c978/The_State_of_European_Tech_Report_2018.pdf)
[State of the Venture Capital Industry MARKET ANALYSIS](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2761/TrueBridge-Capital-Partners-State-of-the-Venture-Capital-Industry-2017.pdf) Spring 2017
## VC rankings and average stats
[Global PE & VC Fund Performance Report Data through 4Q 2017](https://files.pitchbook.com/website/files/pdf/PitchBook_2018_Global_PE_VC_Fund_Performance_Report_as_of_4Q_2017.pdf)
[PE & VC Fund Performance Report Data through 4Q 2016](https://files.pitchbook.com/website/files/pdf/PitchBook_2017_PE_VC_Fund_Performance_Report_as_of_4Q_2016.pdf)
[Forbes Announces First-Ever 2017 Midas List Europe](https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbespr/2017/11/06/forbes-announces-first-ever-2017-midas-list-europe/#2ef0c4204270)
records [Private Equity Investments as of December 31, 2014](https://www.ucop.edu/investment-office/_files/updates/pe_irr_12_31_14.pdf)
## Firms
[SEQUOIA](https://www.sequoiacap.com/build/)
[Benchmark Capital Stays Lean](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/3196/Benchmark%2BCapital.pdf)
[Kleiner Perkins gets back to early-stage with its 600M 18th fund](https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/31/kleiner-perkins-early-stage/)
## Doubts and hopes
[Black Swan Farming](http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html) Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator.
[Gödel Incompleteness For Startups](http://skibinsky.com/godel-incompleteness-for-startups/)
[It’s time to end one of Venture Capital’s most exclusionary, value destroying practices](https://blog.usejournal.com/ban-warm-introductions-1e69169d57ba)