Relax, Read, Repeat: The Top Content Curation to Maximize Your Summer Break
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Relax, Read, Repeat: The Top Content Curation to Maximize Your Summer Break
DDVC #49: Where venture capital and data intersect. Every week.
👋 Hi, I’m Andre and welcome to my weekly newsletter, Data-driven VC. Every Thursday I cover hands-on insights into data-driven innovation in venture capital and connect the dots between the latest research, reviews of novel tools and datasets, deep dives into various VC tech stacks, interviews with experts, and the implications for all stakeholders. Follow along to understand how data-driven approaches change the game, why it matters, and what it means for you.
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Unleash a Summer of Learning
Mid-August. Most of us use our well-deserved summer break as a time to wind down, recharge batteries, zoom out, and get some energy and inspiration for the remainder of the year. For me personally, it’s this time of the year when I consume most content, be it via newsletters, podcasts, videos, online threads, or old-fashioned books. Finding and focussing on the most suitable content is oftentimes a pain and if you’re like me, you surely appreciate dedicated content curations.
So here it comes, the Data-driven VC Content Curation to fuel the remainder of your summer break. It contains the most-read DDVC episodes from the first seven months of 2023, the most clicked links to external content, a collection of related podcasts, and links to Twitter and LinkedIn accounts of the most active DDVC Thought Leaders.
5 Most Read DDVC Episodes YTD (which reached 100k+ views🤯)
“10x Your Productivity with ChatGPT”: Get some inspiration with this step-by-step guide to automate daily workflows like website data extraction, industry or technology classification for any company, sentiment analysis, email drafting, content creation, and a lot more
“Find competitors of any company and measure their similarity with Google Sheets”: Jumpstart your competitive landscape mapping with two different no-code approaches to automatically identify competitors of any company and compare them across a simple similarity matrix
“Your Personal 10x Analyst: Everything You Need to Know About ChatGPT Code Interpreter”: Step-by-step guide to leverage Code Interpreter for data analysis, visualization, file manipulation, financial modeling, task automation, web scraping, and many other typical analyst and knowledge work tasks
“An Emerging VC's Tech Stack”: Will Bricker from Hustle Fund, a pre-seed VC investing in software and service companies in the US, Canada, and Southeast Asia, shares in detail how they leverage an extremely lean but highly effective tech stack to scale their investment process
“How to find new LP investors for your fund at scale (+ list of top 46 LPs in German VC funds)”: Arnas Bräutigam from AddedVal.io, a platform connecting 1k+ business angels with suitable pre-seed / seed startups, shares how his team leverages public register entries to identify potential LP investors for fund managers
5 Most Clicked Links to External Content YTD
“Can AI replace VCs? Three experiments” by Andreas Goeldi from b2venture, showcasing how he uses LLMs to write investment memos, conduct market research, and make introductions
“21 productivity hacks VCs and founders can’t live without” by Sadia Nowshin from Sifted, covering top tools used by investors at Inreach, Picus, Eight Roads, and more
“Venture Capital - We’re still not normal” article by David Coats from Correlation Ventures, sharing a new analysis based on data from 2013-2022 on the VC power law distribution
“The platform engineering approach to VC” by Ben Smith from InReach Ventures, diving into the logical architectural layers of data, intelligence, and workflow, applied to each stage of the VC value-chain
“ChatGPT is already changing work at startups. Here’s how” by Tim Smith from Sifted, showcasing how different founders use the tool to automate their day-to-day workflows
5 Most Listened DDVC Podcasts YTD
“Most Awesome Founder” Podcast with Prof Dries Faems and Gerrit McGowan: We discuss my transition from Software Developer to PhD to VC investor, challenges to transform traditional industries, the difficulty of purely relying on historic data to predict outliers, how we at Earlybird leverage LLMs, and a lot more
“Venture Europe” Podcast with Calin Fabri: We discuss my journey from analyst to partner at Earlybird, the change in the competitive landscape for VCs and the drive to become more data-driven, how Earlybird leverages primary and secondary data across the value chain, and a lot more
“Riding Unicorns” Podcast with James Pringle and Hector Mason: We discuss how looking at data can help you win deals, dealing with the classic AI problem, data-driven software for VCs, and a lot more
“Starwatcher” Podcast with Ernests Stals: We discuss the state of digitization in VC, the VC value chain, Earlybird’s ‘Augmented VC approach’, and how data needs to be actionable to create value for investors
“Innovation Pulse” with Frank Thelen (Video with German audio and English subtitles): We discuss how the “Data-driven VC” newsletter evolved, why the only digitization that VC has seen so far was from pen & paper to word, pptx & xls, some of the signals Earlybird uses to track talents, and a lot more
5 Thought Leaders to Follow for More Content
Earlier this year, I launched the “Data-driven VC Landscape 2023”, a project which took months of work and resulted in a report with exclusive data on 151 VC firms, 65 thought leaders, 400+ tools, and a range of hands-on guides explaining how investors can become more data-driven. For the sake of this content curation, let’s double click on the list of thought leaders.
Here comes a summary of some of the most active and inspiring DDVC thought leaders to follow for more content around VC, data, AI, productivity, startups, and more. Do it, they’re just one click away and provide so much food for thought.
That should be plenty of content to fill the remainder of your summer break (and beyond). Enjoy your time off and see you next week👋🏻
Stay driven,
Andre
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