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All You Need to Know About Venture Capital: Career Paths, Investment Thesis, and Lessons Learned

All You Need to Know About Venture Capital: Career Paths, Investment Thesis, and Lessons Learned

Released Wednesday, 28th June 2023
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All You Need to Know About Venture Capital: Career Paths, Investment Thesis, and Lessons Learned

All You Need to Know About Venture Capital: Career Paths, Investment Thesis, and Lessons Learned

All You Need to Know About Venture Capital: Career Paths, Investment Thesis, and Lessons Learned

All You Need to Know About Venture Capital: Career Paths, Investment Thesis, and Lessons Learned

Wednesday, 28th June 2023
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Jordan Sawadogo discusses the Venture Capital career paths, mistakes he commonly sees companies make that prevents him from investing in them, and Venture Capital firms expectations after you raise. 

This is part 2 of my interview with Jordan. You can find Part 1 of our discussion here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/engineer-to-startup-investor-startup-journey-mindset/id1584516029?i=1000615900794

During our discussion about career pathways to becoming a Venture Capital associate or scout he reveals the traditional and non-traditional pathways to get into the world of VC.

We also discussed the amount of equity that Venture Capital firms typically look for when investing in Seed stage companies.

0:00 Pathways to Venture Capital investor
1:53 Counter-positioning business model
7:30 What is a Venture Capital Scout
12:04 What do investors Hate seeing?
16:36 How much equity do Venture Capital firms want
20:49 When does dilution occur? 
25:40 When is VC not a good option
28:21 Why do startups layoff after raising?
30:01 What investments are Venture Capital firms looking for
34:04 Increasing access of capital to underserved founders

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