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Check the investment / exit activity of the funds, meaning the amount of deal exposure you may also get in the future in case you can get to execution team.
Also you did not mention the fund sizes for PEs or any new fund raisings etc. for them.
I do not think the question is whether it should be a PE or a VC, it is more a matter of which one is a more active fund, more well-know and the one you may get more deal exposure.
If you do not have any resources to research the firms, pm me the names I'll try to see if I can get you any info on their activities.
Option 1 would be best since you have exposure to transaction and deal sourcing. Option 3 is not guaranteed that you will have transaction exposure.
Forget option 2, my friend works for as a deal sourcing analyst at a VC and he hates it.
PE or VC better for b-school? (Originally Posted: 06/24/2009)
For those with previous buyside experience, is the PE or VC experience more attractive for Bschools? Of course it shouldn't be a reason to choose either career, but I'm just wondering. The advantages I see of each is PE is more finance quantitative and should be attractive to finance heavy schools, while VC shows more entrepreneural spirit and leadership. Thoughts?
Also, would it be fair to say "name" isn't as important for VC as compared to PE since there are much fewer well known VC shops - they're usually much smaller and less known so experience is more important than name in VC, but in PE name is more important because so many people have PE backgrounds?
Why would you ever go to B-School if you already have PE/VC on your resume?!?
The pre-MBA positions are usually not partner track...
In either case, it is about quality of experience, not really name, or one field vs another. If you do well on your GMAT, your quant is fine. PE or VC, either way you can't go wrong if you are confident that you will get some solid project exposure, and very good experience. If you feel that one of the opportunities will provide you with more leadership opportunity vs the other, or more exposure to interesting projects, then that is the position that you should choose. Don't think of it in terms of one vs the other, black and white. Take it on a firm by firm, opportunity by opportunity basis. Both positions will look very good on the b school application - the incremental benefit will come in the form of experiences, recommendation letters and initiative - the last 2 are based on your performance, and the 1st differs with each position at each firm.
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