Venture Capital Career Advice

Venture Capital - Interview Preparation

Venture capital interviews are much more informal than the type you would expect encounter in investment banks or private equity firms. The questions are less technical, and much more motivation and fit-oriented: interviews are simply a chat between two people...but that doesn't mean they're easier.

Venture Capital - Interview Preparation

During an interview with a Venture Capital firm, you may be asked "Imagine you are a VC investor. What kind of questions would you ask an entrepreneur that has come to present his business to you?". Or again, if you have started a business yourself, what kind of questions should you expect from a VC investor.

Venture Capital - Interview Preparation

list of venture capital firms in london

Venture Capital - Interview Preparation

There is in fact no "perfect profile" for venture capital jobs, because venture capital firms themselves can be very different and have different strategies. So how can you know if you would be attractive to venture capital firms?

Venture Capital - Interview Preparation

Venture capital firms concentrate their investments in a handful of industries and are on the lookout for very specific characteritics.

Venture Capital - Venture Capital Explained

There are a lot of excellent books to read on Venture Capital, and blogs of famous venture capitalists are also a good starting point. Below is a selection of the books we recommend: Smarter Ventures: A Survivor's Guide to Venture Capital Through the New Cycle For anyone wanting to raise money from VCs or for wannabee VCs this is the book to read.

Venture Capital - Venture Capital Explained

People working in Venture Capital firms are called "venture capitalists".

Venture Capital - Venture Capital Explained

What is venture capital?

Venture Capital - Venture Capital Explained

Venture Capital investing sounds like a very glamourous and exciting career path. Like every career however, it has a number of upsides and downsides. Here is our list of what is great and what is bad in venture capital The Good - Helping companies grow into something big is very rewarding, both personally and financially!

Venture Capital - Venture Capital Explained

Potential investments are often classified in different "stages": seed stage, early stage, expansion, or "growth", stage and later stage. Venture capital firms also sometimes focus on a very specific stage. For example, you might hear people say "I work on an early stage VC", or "we only do later stage investments".