Resources
Want to know more about Venture Capital (VC) and Startups but don’t know where to start? You’ve landed on the right page! Here you’ll find what VC is about, the basics of building your first Startup or even pitching to a VC. Here we also regularly update our favourite podcast of the moment, articles, and people to talk to. Find all of this in the following section.
How to build a startup and pitch a Venture Capitalist?
Are you an entrepreneur looking to found a company but don't know where to start? This section offers Stanford lectures on how to start a startup, presents key metrics VCs look into in a startup and all the tips you need when pitching to an investor.
Read Marc Andreessen’s Guide to Startups
Watch the lectures Y Combinator gave at Stanford on How to Start a Startup
Read Paul Graham’s How to Get Startup Ideas and A Student’s Guide to Startups
How to hire the best people you’ve ever worked with
First-Time Founders Resource Guide
16 Startup Metrics by a16z
16 More Startup Metrics by a16z
Product-Market Fit by a16z
A seed round manual for founders: strategies, pitch prep, valuation, traps, tips and more
What VCs talk about when they discuss startups
Sequoia Capital Pitch Deck Template
100+ Pitch Deck Examples From the Most Successful Startups
Why your startup idea isn’t big enough for some VCs
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (Book)
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Book)
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (Book)
What is Venture Capital all about?
A super-fast overview of VC history, a pandemic-friendly digital education platform all about VC and endless book recommendations with insights and tips for future Venture Capitalists. That's what you'll find in this section.
What is VC and how does it work?
A Student’s Guide to Seed Funds
Teen VC The digital education platform where teenagers can learn about Venture Capital (VC) and entrepreneurship
Venture Capital and the Internet’s Impact
Three Core Principles of Venture Capital Portfolio Strategy
Why Portfolio Size Matters For Returns
Venture Capital Fund Returns: How a Pool of Businesses Generate Value
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It (Book)
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist (Book)
The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies (Book)
Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-up to IPO on Your Terms (Book)
eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work (Book)
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Book)
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future (Book)
How to navigate insolvency as a startup? (restartupnetherlands.nl)