Going from Management Consultant to Venture Capital Associate
Pre-mba monkey here, 2+yrs consultant specializing in pharma/biotech industry, and before that did product management at a fortune 500 med tech. Looking to switch over to the VC side (at a firm interested in health tech), but do not have any contacts in the industry. Any advice on making the transition?
I'm especially interested in hearing what skills I may need to develop given my background... obviously very comfortable with launching products, commercial strategy, know the healthcare industry pretty well, but don't have such extensive modeling experience compared to my banker buddies, which concerns me a bit.
What I've done so far is reached out to people for introductions, and attending some startup demo days, thinking of going to NYC tech meetup next month. Other ideas?
Also, if any VC associates out there reading this, would love to hear about your experience on how you got into it.