Venture Capital Executive Program

The Venture Capital Executive Program is our flagship program, and has been created as a handbook that you can turn to in your daily practice. We constantly update it with new case studies, regulation changes, and advice from seasoned venture capitalists, professionals, and other practitioners.

It covers the entire process of venture investing from self-identification as an investor, raising and operating a venture capital fund, building and harvesting a portfolio of investments, and finally, exiting and liquidating venture capital funds.

STRUCTURE YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND LEVEL UP IN VENTURE CAPITAL:

• bolster your personal investor profile and industry presence to increase visibility
• upskill yourself in networking for the purpose of creating your proprietary deal flow
• understand portfolio construction principles
• create an investment thesis for your venture capital fund
• prepare the necessary presentations and legal documents for pitching to institutional investors
• introduce yourself to your potential limited partners using our directory of institutional investors
• develop your leadership qualities, in order to manage a venture capital firm
  
• learn to do due diligence according to the best practices
• become proficient in determining valuation and prepared to negotiate deal terms
• build a diversified investment portfolio
• identify and measure impact created by your portfolio companies
• grasp how to support portfolio companies and analyze their performance
• optimize your relationship with founders to become startups’ most valuable asset
• design your portfolio model and draft return scenarios
• harvest your investments and develop efficient management tools
• tune the daily operations of a venture capital fund
• establish procedures for strengthening your relationships with your limited partners

WHY YOU SHOULD ENROLL

First — knowledge is an asset. We built the Venture Capital Executive Program to be an asset in your daily venture investing practices. It will become a structured foundation for your success, which you will enrich with your personal experience. The Venture Capital Executive Program is our attempt to establish a standard for education in venture capital investing. The program combines the necessary formal knowledge, informal best practices collected from around the world, and instruments for your further development as an investor. This will be the first bluebook on venture capital and will also be available online.

Second — the method and approach. The core of the program is the proprietary teaching methodology developed by neuroscientists, which will help you to memorize the most important lessons, develop critical habits, and achieve measurable results in as soon as 30, 60, and 90 days. This Program, however, is also focused on developing your curiosity, and aims to encourage you to conduct your own discovery during and after the learning process. To achieve better learning results, we recommend that you follow our study plan. However, we realize that you may need a personalized schedule, and will try our best to seamlessly embed in your daily workload.

Third — work in virtual teams * . If you commit to following our schedule, you’ll be able to join a team of other students and follow the entire process of establishing a virtual VC firm, create an investment thesis for your VC fund and prepare the full package of documents for pitching them, construct your portfolio, source deals and evaluate potential investment opportunities, negotiate deal terms, and also reinforce your industry presence.