Event Review: Leverage your MBA to become a VC
The Private Equity Venture Capital Club, one of the SCU MBA clubs, hosted an evening round-table with Jim Marshal, of Selby Venture Partners, and Bill Baumel, of RWI Ventures, discussing how to become a VC.
Their general advice could be summed up as: get technical training, then join a hot startup and become the product manager. This will allow you to get the proper experience, as well as to impress the VCs and directors of your company. If you’re good enough, they might invite you. The problem, they explained, is that the VC community is very closed and tight-nit, and it’s hard to break in. Like most other jobs and career transitions, networking is the best method to get your foot in the door.