Anyone got training materials for venture capital?
I'm ideally looking for technical materials, such as info on valuation, term sheets, etc.
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um... bump to where please? were you able to find good materials?
earthwalker7 this is the best I've read so far:
Venture Capital Fund Management: A Comprehensive Approach to Investment Practices & the Entire Operations of a VC Firm by Lin Hong Wong
Brad Feld's Venture Deals is a very common one.
This has some decent articles from Brad Feld as mrharveyspecter noted https://www.feld.com/archive
to study VC (Originally Posted: 11/18/2009)
http://www.em-lyon.com/english/graduate/MGE/index.aspx
What do you think of this programm?
My goal is it to work for a VC company.
What do you think is the best route except of starting a company or working for eg a tech company?
I know have the option to either go into management or stategy consulting (study something else) or try with the program statet above...
please tell me what you think. Babson college the place to be? Its ranked no 1 for enterpreneurship. Better than stanford?
Product management or entrepreneurship is the best place to go...after all, when you're at a Board, you want practical business advice given; not pearls of wisdom from a douchey HBS case study reader or a former banker...
location is the key...go to boston (babson works; MIT or Harvard engineering) or sf area (Berkeley/stanford) schools or a tech like carnegie mellon
I don't know about this program, and Babson doesn't have much of a reputation in the VC world to be honest. From several conversations with people in the industry, Stanford is the best for VC placement, followed by Harvard and MIT.
As far as professional experience, besides operating experience at a tech firm or entrepreneurship, strategy consulting or banking experience focused on areas like healthcare and tech seem to be the best bet for breaking into VC.
thanks for the great replies
I agree babson may be trickier...but VCs don't necessarily 'recruit from schools' so any top 25 with a technical background works (i say technical so that you head in the ops/entre direction)...the secular trend you have to jump on is that the industry as a whole is shrinking...the firms that will survive apart from the Sequioas are the Andressen Horowitz...guys with serious street cred due to founding startups that made it...and even at a sequoia the newest partners (boetha etc) had serious operating (paypal) experience at a startup...
if you want to build a career in VC, the entry price is starting up a company or developing/running a product...that is if you want to be a GP one day...associates can break in with a motley of backgrounds, but those that climb to GP typically need 'real-life' experience or a serious rolodex, which doesn't come from banking or consulting
I think eiffeltowered hits the nail on the head regarding experience and Rolodex. VC is a very relationship-driven business, arguably even more so than private equity and investment banking. As such, VC requires one to be actively involved in the entrepreneurial scene. Being in tech M&A, I think, does contribute to this, so I wouldn't rule out banking completely. However, at the analyst level, it does take initiative to get out and meet / talk to people when you're not cranking at work, even though it may be difficult to do.
again, great replies!
well, starting a company sounds definitely more interesting than M&A sweatshops. You probably have to be the type to really leave that security of Banking and consulting behind for the same hours and no sure money but more risk more reward, right? I was still surprised that Babson is ranked no 1 for entrepreneurship. How do you rank that? What actually the point in studying in entrepreneurship? I understand that guys studying engineering in stanford (or oxbridge`etc. for that matter) have an edge. They come up with a smart product and start a company (very simplistic).
Do you see any advantage in studying entrepreneurship over studying normal Business or even a more technical course? Maybe not necessarily with regards to VC but with regards to the first step of starting a company.
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