#BreakIntoVC: How to Break Into Venture Capital And Think Like an Investor Whether You're a Student, Entrepreneur or Working Professional (Venture Capital Guidebook Book 1)

Events are a shortcut to connecting and networking with venture capitalists, as well as entrepreneurs, and help you to land a job in the industry. Since VCs go to events and pitch festivals to find new companies, so should you. There are always startup events to attend.

Aside from the resume, another way to be impactful is to show or prove that you can do the work of a VC. Try and help out with suggestions for their portfolio companies. If you know about a company and think it may be worth a VC’s time, always feel free to reach out. I think some of these things are more important than a resume in some aspects.

First, the stage is really important. If we’re looking early stage, finance is not necessarily a relevant background. Having more technical experience at an early stage is definitely more advantageous although less necessary because what you’re likely doing is staying up to date on what’s new and relevant in a given space.

The amount of original insight you can add is a great indicator of your passion in a given field. It will take you miles ahead of your competitors who are likely simplifying and recycling information from the above sources. Creating your own bolded insights above is one of the keys to being a cut above the rest in the interview process.

Private equity relies on a wholly different business model. Private equity firms like Blackstone, The Apollo Group and KKR will typically take a 100 percent stake, or complete ownership in an operational company. These firms will then scale that company through add-on acquisitions and organic growth for a period of 4 to 7 years until ultimately sel

So, if a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business, otherwise known as a business that licenses their software to others on a subscription basis,

Market fragmentation refers to the number of competitors in the space; the more competitors, the more fragmented the market. A highly fragmented market may seem like a negative, but it’s actually a great signal that there is no market leader. To venture capitalists, this generally means that no existing company has monetized the industry to the bes

The endowment and pension fund agree to invest. Cynthia and Mercedes then form “CynMerc” Ventures, which will invest in early stage private companies. With this first fund—let’s call it CynMerc I, CynMerc Ventures will spend 3-5 years investing the money and 5 more years (8 to 10 years in total) to get the pension and endowment money back plus a su

CynMerc II will come in when about 75 percent of CynMerc I is committed to deals,

Free cash flow is the “spending money” of a company, or the money that is left over after all core expenses are paid. Since—ideally, free cash flow will be generated every year, this amount represents the “future dollars” that will be discounted to “present day” dollars in order to value the company.