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Why being a VC sucks. Advice to anyone who wants to get into venture capital.

This is going to be BIG.

I probably get around a dozen e-mails a week asking me how to get into venture capital. On top of that, anytime I talk to anyone who wants to get involved in startups but isn''t sure what they want to do, inevitably, I hear, "And then I was thinking maybe I should look into venture capital, too.". 2) People pitch you.

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How To Pitch A Real Estate Tech VC

Dream It

Dreamit Urbantech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman recently sat down with Jeff for a wide-ranging conversation on real estate tech, and a large part of that conversation focused on what founders can do to successfully raise venture capital from real estate tech investors. You should pitch how to get higher rents.

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What Would it Look Like if Elon Musk Pitched a VC Today?

Both Sides of the Table

His imagination of what is wrong with VC has captured perfectly in satirical format what ails our industry. It is Nikolas Tesla pitching a VC firm. The back-and-forth between Andy & me if anything I hope just raised the issue a bit more about entrepreneur & VC relationships. He knew me then. They are also sad.

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Pitch me!

This is going to be BIG.

It''s a co-working space full of creatives and freelancers, most of whom who have never pitched an investor, and probably never seen a startup pitch either. Their reaction to what I do day in and day out is very telling about how a lot of people, including VCs themselves, think of the job. I''m just trying to be helpful.

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The Quality You Never Hear Pitched When People Want in to Venture Capital

This is going to be BIG.

So I asked a few founders that I've worked with and they mentioned a word that struck me--because I've never heard any of the hordes of people in my inbox asking for internships, VC job recommendations and advice, etc. I think of venture capital as a service business. mention about themselves. Generosity.

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10 Misperceptions About Venture Capital

This is going to be BIG.

Not every company raises venture capital—most don’t. In large part, that is a result of who pitches to VCs, not surprisingly. We can debate how to get a more diverse stream of people in the top of the funding funnel for sure, but the fact is that VCs just want to make money. 1) You need it.

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Lessons from a Diverse Venture Capital Portfolio

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Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the pre-seed and seed stage VC fund I run in NYC, has invested in 64 companies in the last six and a half years. The diversity is the direct result of our mission—to build the most accessible venture capital fund in NY. Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder.