Any way to be competitive in VC recruiting without much finance/accounting experience? If not, what can I do in the next month to get up to par?

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Disagree with A1. If you search, there are plenty of consultants not from MBB. The best thing you can do is be local to the startup city you’re interested in. VC is a networking game. Sure for tier 1s like Benchmark/NEA/a16z they’d only look at you for MBB, but the reality is those firms only have like 8 associates combined.

From experience, if you can go deep into a sector, have a track record of speaking with companies, and can provide a value add not currently at a fund, you’re golden. This can be in the form of product expertise, recruiting, etc.

It takes about a year to break in so you better get started now. Make a Twitter, go to events, write down what companies interest you and ask funds if you can help in their market diligence processes.

TLDR; go to John Gannon and read it all

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I’m guessing here... but from what I’ve read you may have a shot at earlier stage funds based on a track record of industry expertise, particularly if you are in a hot industry with few experts who are going into VC (like cyber)

Where are you an analyst and where are you located

1. Be MBB
2. Have two years of experience, preferably in financial services
3. Know your finance inside and out. How to do a VC valuation, create a DCF from scratch etc. basically your typical ibanking prep
4. Network

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