Road to a Venture Capital Career: Practical Strategies and Tips to Break Into The Industry

Road to a Venture Capital Career: Practical Strategies and Tips to Break Into The Industry

by John Gannon
Road to a Venture Capital Career: Practical Strategies and Tips to Break Into The Industry

Road to a Venture Capital Career: Practical Strategies and Tips to Break Into The Industry

by John Gannon

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Overview

In this book, I share what I learned during multiple successful venture capital job searches, with the hopes that you can leverage these strategies and tactics in your own venture capital job hunt.

Chapters and topics include:

What’s the job of a junior VC? (A discussion of the day-to-day work of an analyst or associate)
Onramps to venture capital (Discussion of the feeder jobs and industries to the venture capital industry)
Do you need an MBA?

What makes a good VC? (Discussion of skils that can help you be successful in this industry)
Where are the jobs? (Finding/creating venture capital job opportunities)

Where are the internships? (Finding/creating internship opportunities as an undergrad or grad student)

Introductions and followups (The lifeblood of a VC job hunt)
The Informational Interview (Once you get it, how to get the most out of it)
Offer negotiations (If you’re fortunate enough to have offers to join multiple firms)
Exit options (If you’re not a VC lifer, some thoughts on careers that might make sense post-VC)
Final advice


Product Details

BN ID: 2940045032650
Publisher: John Gannon
Publication date: 10/20/2012
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 113 KB

About the Author

John Gannon has worked in the Internet and software sectors for the last 16 years in a variety of business development, professional services, technical architecture, and venture investment roles. Recently, John worked at VMTurbo, an early stage virtualization and cloud computing startup software company backed by Highland Capital Partners and Bain Capital Ventures. He joined the company as the first business side hire and led customer development, business development, inside sales and marketing initiatives from alpha through the company's public launch.

Prior to joining VMTurbo, John worked as an early stage venture capitalist at L Capital Partners, where he sourced and performed due diligence on potential investments in Internet and software companies and served as a board observer for OnPath Technologies, a physical layer network switch vendor. Earlier in his career, he worked at VMware, Scient, and FOXSports.com in a variety of technical and professional services leadership roles. He is currently employed by a leading cloud computing service provider.

John received a B.S. in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He resides in New York City with his wife, twin daughters, and an American Hairless Terrier.

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