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    Road to a Venture Capital Career: Practical Strategies and Tips to Break Into The Industry
    Road to a Venture Capital Career: Practical Strategies and Tips to Break Into The Industry
    Road to a Venture Capital Career: Practical Strategies and Tips to Break Into The Industry
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    Road to a Venture Capital Career: Practical Strategies and Tips to Break Into The Industry

    By John Gannon

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    In this book, I share what I learned during multiple successful venture capital job searches, with the hopes that you can leverage these strategies and tactics in your own venture capital job hunt.

    Chapters and topics include:

    What’s the job of a junior VC? (A discussion of the day-to-day work of an analyst or associate)
    Onramps to venture capital (Discussion of the feeder jobs and industries to the venture capital industry)
    Do you need an MBA?

    What makes a good VC? (Discussion of skils that can help you be successful in this industry)
    Where are the jobs? (Finding/creating venture capital job opportunities)

    Where are the internships? (Finding/creating internship opportunities as an undergrad or grad student)

    Introductions and followups (The lifeblood of a VC job hunt)
    The Informational Interview (Once you get it, how to get the most out of it)
    Offer negotiations (If you’re fortunate enough to have offers to join multiple firms)
    Exit options (If you’re not a VC lifer, some thoughts on careers that might make sense post-VC)
    Final advice

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Gannon
    Release dateOct 20, 2012
    ISBN9781301127092
    Road to a Venture Capital Career: Practical Strategies and Tips to Break Into The Industry
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    John Gannon

    John Gannon has worked in the Internet and software sectors for the last 16 years in a variety of business development, professional services, technical architecture, and venture investment roles. Recently, John worked at VMTurbo, an early stage virtualization and cloud computing startup software company backed by Highland Capital Partners and Bain Capital Ventures. He joined the company as the first business side hire and led customer development, business development, inside sales and marketing initiatives from alpha through the company's public launch. Prior to joining VMTurbo, John worked as an early stage venture capitalist at L Capital Partners, where he sourced and performed due diligence on potential investments in Internet and software companies and served as a board observer for OnPath Technologies, a physical layer network switch vendor. Earlier in his career, he worked at VMware, Scient, and FOXSports.com in a variety of technical and professional services leadership roles. He is currently employed by a leading cloud computing service provider. John received a B.S. in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He resides in New York City with his wife, twin daughters, and an American Hairless Terrier.

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      Road to a Venture Capital Career - John Gannon

      ROAD TO A VENTURE CAPITAL CAREER

      Practical Strategies and Tips

      to Break into the Industry

      John Gannon

      Copyright 2012 John Gannon

      Smashwords Edition

      Contents

      ABOUT JOHN

      A PERSONAL STORY

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      WHAT'S THE JOB OF A JUNIOR VC?

      ONRAMPS TO VENTURE CAPITAL

      WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

      WHAT ARE VCS LOOKING FOR AND WHAT TRAITS DO I NEED TO EXHIBIT TO GET THE JOB?

      INTRODUCTIONS, INTERVIEWS, AND FOLLOW-UPS

      CAREER PATH AND EXIT OPTIONS

      A FINAL WORD

      NOTES

      About John

      John Gannon has worked in the Internet and software sectors for the last 16 years in a variety of business development, professional services, technical architecture, and venture investment roles. Recently, John worked at VMTurbo, an early stage virtualization and cloud computing startup software company backed by Highland Capital Partners and Bain Capital Ventures. He joined the company as the first business side hire and led customer development, business development, inside sales and marketing initiatives from alpha through the company's public launch.

      Prior to joining VMTurbo, John worked as an early stage venture capitalist at L Capital Partners, where he sourced and performed due diligence on potential investments in Internet and software companies and served as a board observer for OnPath Technologies, a physical layer network switch vendor. Earlier in his career, he worked at VMware, Scient, and FOXSports.com in a variety of technical and professional services leadership roles. He is currently employed by a leading cloud computing service provider.

      John received a B.S. in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He resides in New York City with his wife, twin daughters, and an American Hairless Terrier.

      A Personal Story

      I stood in the quad at Columbia and watched scores of gown-bedecked graduates with their families at the annual recognition ceremony. Lots of Lion pride was evident, with the soon-to-be officially graduated donning light blue regalia and ear-to-ear grins. I had many reasons to be happy as well. In addition to being a newly minted Columbia MBA, I was about to become a first-time father … to twin girls, nonetheless.

      However, while most of the people standing in that quad had new jobs they’d be stepping into shortly after graduation, I was still jobless, albeit with some prospects. I had just finished a final round interview with a firm in the mid-Atlantic a week before, and I felt like it went well enough that I might receive an offer. But I didn’t. I remember getting the disappointing news while standing amongst my fellow graduates, but instead of being in cap and gown, I was wearing a suit because I had to run downtown mid-ceremony for an interview with yet another firm.

      You might be asking why, on a day when I should be celebrating a milestone with family and friends, I’d be spending the day interviewing. Simply put, I wanted to become a venture capitalist. And I did. However, it wasn’t an easy journey, and with this book I want to share what I learned during the process to help others

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