A student's guide to VC - Linda Tong

A collection of resources on venture capital

Over the past year, I fell in love with VC, and I created the following collection of notes and resources for myself. It began as a glossary to keep track of the alphabet soup of terms I learned in Scott Kupor’s Secrets of Sand Hill Road, but it soon expanded into book and podcast recommendations, investment theses from different firms, blog posts from student VCs I enjoyed, and notes from information sessions I attended. VC has a reputation for being a very opaque industry. It's really hard to find job postings, it's hard to get resources about how to prep for interviews, and interview…

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