Venture Capital Jobs

Burgeoning populations of young, middle-class consumers in emerging markets are creating rich opportunities for venture capital investors. And that means more opportunities for venture capital jobs, as well, investing in Internet, financial services, and clean tech in these regions, reports Knowledge at Wharton. Participants at the recent 2011 Wharton Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference [...]

Chris Farmer, who holds a venture capital job at General Catalyst Partners in Cambridge, MA, has come up with a unique way of ranking the top venture capital firms. He’s modeled his approach after Google’s PageRank system, which ranks search results based on how many links each webpage gets from other sites. In Famer’s system, [...]

Roger Ehrenberg, founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, recently penned a first-person account of what keeps venture capital investors like himself up at night. It’s a good primer for anyone interested in a venture capital job. His firm, IA Ventures funds early-stage companies that focus on the development of innovative tools, technologies and analytics for [...]

Adam Ludwin, an associate with RRE Ventures in New York City, recently penned perhaps the most practical short guide to landing a lower-level job in venture capital. Be forewarned: there are no shortcuts and the journey may seem arduous to all but the most highly motivated candidates, according to his reprinted article in Fortune. But [...]