Learning about Venture Capital Investing and Terms

A friend, new to the startup investment space, asked me today how to learn about all of the different terms, players/investors and approaches in startup investing.  I started to rattle off some of my favorites, and then thought about sending a follow up e-mail with links, etc.  Of course, a blog post is probably a better way to share these, so others can access them. Read these blogs (start 12+ months back, and read all of their posts) and follow their tweets:

• Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures
• Mark Suster of GRP Partners
• Brad Feld of Foundry Group
• Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital
• Ben Horowitz of Andreesen Horowitz and their AH Resource Library
• Paul Graham‘s essays are awesome
• Ask The VC (by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson)

Understand these startup incubators:

• YCombinator and their amazing startup library
• TechStars (Seattle, Boulder, New York City, Boston, etc.)

Because Quora is frequented by so many VCs, entrepreneurs and the like, it’s also a great place to get almost any question answered about term sheets and colluding VCs 🙂 Great News outlets for startups:

• TechCrunch

Events to attend (not too often):

• South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW)