Any tips on how to get started on prepping for VC interviews

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Reading a lot of VC media, identify VCs that you admire and read their blogs/investment memos (Bessemer for example publishes these). Also watch interviews given by VCs and founders - this is to quickly pick up on the language of VCs, how they think, and questions they ask which you can use in an interview

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