Additional Resources & Links

Deep dive on what makes a moat

Factors to consider when launching digital marketplaces

Visuals > narrative

A call for better ways to manage communities

Demystifying moats

Charting the misalignment of VC value creation

Frameworks to use for building communities based on user-generated content

Why engagement is the ultimate metric for consumer social products

A deep dive into Sequoia Capital’s modus operandi on how they invest, where, and why

Product team formation guide

Info edge as an investor

Analysis advantages as an investor

Finding and evaluating different types of moats

Questions to ask during customer discovery

How to go about assessing sustainable moats for different businesses

Adjusting to the new cadence of dealmaking

Why to bootstrap your SaaS startup

Intangible benefits of community-driven businesses

Flaws of the LTV:CAC equation

Lessen the back and forth with the other side

How to assess the health of your GTM

More metrics to track

Metrics to track

Legal templates to help your companies that are fielding acquisition offers

Great list of contractors and agencies collected by the team at Alpaca

Listen to how LPs break down VC fundraising decks

Designing the fastest way to keep an entire company up-to-date on our roadmap using a Coda doc and a bit of social engineering.

Huge collection of better questions to ask

Find inspiration from best-performing cold emails, sorted by categories.

Curated wisdom and takeaways from guests on the Confluence.VC podcast

How to compensate employees

Best practices for VCs

How to break down metrics for any DTC company

A list of due diligence questions constructed by the analysts & associates of the Women in VC (https://www.women-vc.com) community. Request access to view the Google doc. Feel free to add new questions or suggest edits by commenting in the doc.

How to sell to the largest clients

Why teams failed / succeeded

The collection of mental models on the internet

Free e-book filled with useful frameworks

Awesome collection of mental frameworks to leverage as an investor

Awesome resource from MicroAcquire

VC advice for startup boards

Craft your position as a board member

The only resource guide you need to share with your portfolio

Templates on how to say no in any situation

Help with option plans

Assembling and managing your team effectively

Investment memos shared by the BVP team

Templates to launch new initiatives

Board meeting prep to follow

Insights on startups

Tips for your next board meeting

Resource to justify the costs of sales reps

Board meeting resource guide

Directory of all YC graduates

Stock option grants help

Product feedback frameworks

Top frameworks library for founders

Great guide for how to begin prospecting

How to price your SaaS business

Market research in five minute blurbs

Everything you need to know to run and operate your fund

Tools for better thinking

Understanding the hidden impacts of software

Frameworks to understand the impact of the internet on other industries

Essay on the founding and sustained culture within Sequoia Capital

People are status-seeking monkeys

Bits of wisdom from the founder of AngelList

Why people and businesses should position themselves to gain from disorder

A book on how VCs make decisions

General Overview of VC