Wednesday, December 9, 2009

How to get started as a Venture Capital (VC) analyst?

I get asked this question often: How does one become a VC? Well, if you are an analyst/associate candidate, this should really help you. Click on link below for the rest of a very useful article…Great pointers on how to be a strong network node!

As an analyst, you can be useful at pretty much only three things: communication, sourcing, and analysis. The great thing for VC wannabes is that these are all things that you can do now, before a job even comes up. There's nothing stopping you from putting forth your analysis of a new startup, or tipping VCs off to potential deals today, even when you're not at a firm.

Many students have the misconception that, as an analyst, you're going to be put in front of a big stack of business plans and your filtering skill is what's going to make you the next Mike Moritz. Guess again. VCs hustle hard to track down deals and they expect everyone in the shop to be bringing deals to the table, because you should be in the flow of interesting things going on.

via How to get started as a Venture Capital (VC) analyst | from This is going to be BIG! – Comments on New York Tech Community, Startups, Venture Capital and Career Education.

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