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Venture Capital 101 : The Guide for Everything you Need
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    • Venture Capital 101 : The Guide for Everything you Need to Know
    • Table of Contents
    • What is Venture Capital?
      • Venture Hierarchy
      • Who Invests Where
      • Funding Stages
      • How Do VCs Make Money
    • On Breaking into Venture Capital
      • What VC Look For: Skills You Should Have
        • Where Should I Work?
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          On Sourcing Companies
          • How To: Source Startups
          • How to Cold Outreach a Founder (Template)
        • On Writing Investment Memos
          • How To: Write an Investment Memo
          • Investment Memo Template
        • On Evaluating Companies/ Due Diligence
          • How To: Evaluate Startups
      • Building a Brand
      • On Finding A Venture Job/Internship
        • Venture Job Board
          • Venture Capital Cold Outreach (Template)
          • Venture Scouting & Fellowships
        • How to Ace the Venture Interview
    • Congrats! You Got the Job - What to Expect & How to Succeed
      • Venture Compensation $$$
      • How to Prepare for Your 1st Day on the Job
      • A Day in the Life of a VC
    • Templates, Resource, Podcasts & More
      • Templates
        • Investor Deal Flow CRM Template
        • Personal CRM Template
        • How to Cold Outreach a Founder (Template)
        • Venture Capital Cold Outreach (Template)
      • Resources & Links
        • Venture Capital Terms 101
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A big part of what venture capitalists do is source startups. In some funds, they have their analysts do all sourcing work and no due diligence. Sourcing startups is one of the biggest things an aspiring VC should know how to do before even working at a firm. Sourcing startups is how you as an aspiring VC can build up your network of both founders and investors. A great example of this is to be a VC before actually becoming a VC.
Examples of how I’ve seen people get a role in VC was writing thought pieces and research articles on different industries and talking to founders that way along with my great friend
Aaron Farr
⁠
at ZFoundr. He spent time meeting founders that were raising and sharing their stories on a newsletter to investors that got him to meet both VCs and founders and eventually, landed him a role in the space.
After you understand how to source, head on over to our Investor
Deal Flow CRM
⁠
as a place to put in all of the deals you come across.



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