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The Best Resource for Students Pursuing a Career in VC (Updated 04/13)
“Regardless of whether your goal is to become a venture capitalist or get your company funded, you need to learn how to think and communicate like an investor. This is the quickest way to thrive as you begin your journey.”
Bradley Miles began his journey without a blueprint for the road ahead of him. Entering Columbia University with a determination to land a job in what is arguably the hardest industry to enter, he founded Columbia Venture Insights, a student-run venture capital initiative that connects the broader VC community to Columbia’s campus. Along with his internships at Barclays, DCM Ventures, and NextGenVP, this experience helped him land a job with Stripes Group. Bradley has also written extensively on CoinDesk and currently serves as Co-Founder & CEO of Roll, an “an open standard that facilitates the issuance of branded social currencies on the Ethereum blockchain.” As far as I can tell, he produced the first ever systematic guidebook for students trying to enter the VC world.
“I keep everything open source because that’s how you scale. I see no need to keep this all to myself”
If you understand the concept of value investing than you know an asset undervalued by the market should be added to your portfolio. This book is one of those assets. If you seriously want to get a job in venture capital — or even want to learn strategies to better understand VC for your startup — the ROI on this book will far outweigh the costs. #BreakIntoVC offers a systematic approach to understanding the industry delivered in a concise format. Bradley offers an overview of the industry, strategies to research entrepreneurs and develop a perspective on VC, and priceless sections on financial performance metrics that you can actually understand! With advice for interviews and even a fundamentals of accounting section the book also works as a resource to keep close while taking finance classes. Above all, the case studies section of the book shows the numerous paths actual students have taken to land jobs…
