Useful Resources (mainly for my "Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation" students)
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• Surveys:

  • FNCE7500 Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation: Start-of-Year Survey​

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• Books I like:

  • The Challenger Sale by Brent Adamson and Matthew Dixon

  • Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor

  • Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel

  • Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation by Andrew Metrick and Ayako Yasuda

  • ​The Business of Venture Capital by Mahendra Ramsinghani

  • Build for Tomorrow by Jason Feifer

  • The Age of Intelligent Machines by Ray Kurzweil - A Classic!

  • The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil - Although I must admit I was never able to finish it.​

• Articles:​

  • Elements of Enduring Companies by Sequoia​

  • The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework by Sequoia

  • The Insider’s Guide to Data Rooms: What to Know Before You Raise by Justine Moore, A16Z

  • The Anti-Portfolio by Bessemer

  • The investment thesis: Your fund’s strategic blueprint by Rita Astoor, Carta

• Podcasts:

  • Acquired: The show has been ranked the #1 Technology show on Apple Podcasts and has built a passionate audience with a 5-star rating across thousands of reviews. Episodes, which are better described as "conversational audiobooks," have been downloaded by over 200,000 unique listeners in the first 180 days and now have an estimated 250,000+ subscribers across all podcast players.​

  • A16Z Podcast: The a16z Podcast discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future -- especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. Multiple episodes are released every week.

  • 20VC: What was once a channel delivering actual twenty-minute podcasts on VC, has turned into a media conglomerate with $300M in AUM and content on almost every imaginable topic.

• Data & Reports:

  • Wilson Sonsini Entrepreneurs Report:  Data on venture financing transactions and convertible note financings. Great place to find relevant trends in activity and valuation levels for U.S. venture capital.​ 

  • WilmerHale Venture Capital Report: An excellent analysis of venture capital activity.

  • Coolygo Trends: Cooley GO Visualize allows you to drill down on trends gleaned from deals they've worked on with entrepreneurs. The data is updated in conjunction with their quarterly VC Financing Reports.

  • CB Insights: I love their State of Venture reports that give a great overview of the most recent trends in global venture capital.

  • Pitchbook: Pitchbook also has tons of free downloadable reports. I find them a better source for US-focused VC activity.

  • Preqin: A comprehensive private capital and hedge fund datasets and tools. Quite a few interesting free reports on venture capital, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

  • Seed-DB: A database of seed accelerators and their companies. I'm uncertain about the data's accuracy, but it provides an intriguing insight into the world of accelerators.

  • Startup Genome: An innovation policy advisory and research firm. Has some really nice granular analyses in their "Global Startup Ecosystem Report," with some very nice stats on startup hubs around the world.

  • The Rocket Ship Startup List by Jeff Bussgang: Each spring, Jeff provides a comprehensive list of exciting, fast-growing, rapidly hiring startups that represent promising places to start (or continue) a career in Startupland.

• News​

  • TechCrunch: ​TechCrunch is a leading technology media outlet that covers the latest news, reviews, and analysis in the tech industry. 

  • The Verge: The Verge is a popular technology news website that covers a wide range of topics including consumer electronics, science, art, and culture. 

  • Mashable: Mashable is a digital media website that focuses on technology, digital culture, and entertainment news. It covers a wide range of topics including social media, gadgets, internet culture, and digital trends.

• Term Sheet Generators:

  • NVCA: Great resource for relevant templates and updated legal terms.​

  • Cooleygo Document Generators: Tons of relevant templates for founders and investors.

• Valuation Tools:

  • VCV Tools: This website was created as a web-based companion to the "Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation" textbook. Inside, authors Metrick and Yasuda present NEW web-based tools that allow easy visualization and valuations of multiple term sheets in a startup.​

  • Term Sheet Genie: An enhanced term sheet valuation tool using an advanced option pricing model to determine the value of the various deal terms.

  • Term Sheet Lab: Genie's free student version.

  • Damodaran Online: This website is the ultimate destination for valuation data. No other website can match the comprehensive valuation data offered on this site by NYU professor Aswath Damodaran:

    • Cost of Capital by Sector​

    • EV Multiples by Sector

    • Historical Growth Rates by Sector

    • Other Useful Datasets