Venture Capital

Early-stage minority investing in high-growth companies, underwritten on a power-law basis: most investments fail or tread water, and a few outliers return the fund.

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Where Venture Capital comes up

Private Equity vs Venture Capital: What Each One Is Actually BuyingBoth buy private companies. Almost nothing else about the two jobs is the same, and the reason is what each one is underwriting.Read the guide — 10 min How to Get Into Venture CapitalThere is no application window, no assessment centre and no modelling test. There is a partnership deciding whether you can find companies before other people do.Read the guide — 14 min Venture Capital Interview QuestionsThe modelling is easier than banking. Almost everything else about the assessment is harder to fake.Read the guide — 10 min

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