Here are a few of our favorite, most interesting and informative pieces we read in 2018 about investing (in no particular order.)

We salute the authors and hope this collection provides insights to make 2019 a terrific year.

1. Your VC Needs A Billion Dollar Exit. You Do Not. by Micah Rosenbloom
2. The Difference Between Innovators and Entrepreneurs by Steve Blank
3. The Valuation Obsession by Fred Wilson
4. WTF is PMF? (part 1 of 2) by Christoph Janz
5. Why Investing in Women-Led Startups is the Smart Move by David Nethero
6. 11 Reasons We Didn’t Invest in Your Company by Phil Nadel
7. About that Valuation vs. Bad VC Tradeoff… by Fred Destin
8. How to Talk About Valuation When a VC Asks by Mark Suster
9. What Every Startup Founder Should Know About Exits by Benjamin Joffe & Cyril Ebersweiler
10. 6 Unexpected Burdens That Come with Outside Investors by Martin Zwilling
11. Taking Money “Off the Table” by Fred Wilson
12. The Hottest Trends Among Today’s Top Startups (Infographic) by Rose Leadem
13. Growth at All Costs is Perilous — This is How to Scale Sales Sustainably by Karen Rhorer
14. The Power of Culture: How to Hire and Attract Amazing People by Aytekin Tank
15. We Studied 100 Mentor-Mentee Matches — Here’s What Makes Mentorship Work by First Round
16. The Simple Question that Can Make or Break a Startup by Kyle Young
17. How to Break Bad News to Investors by Micah Rosenbloom
18. 5 Common Reasons Why VCs Decide Not to Invest by Beck Bamberger
19. When Venture Capital Becomes Vanity Capital by Eric Paley
20. Splitting the Deal by Fred Wilson
21. The New Series A Fundraising Playbook for Seed-Funded Startups by David Beisel