All the VC job posts demand ‘demonstrated investing acumen,’ but how do you showcase that as a PM? I can’t exactly make personal angel investments. Are side projects analyzing failed startups valuable? What tangible artifacts make hiring committees take notice?
Your product launch post-mortems ARE investment theses! Reframe them with an investor lens - you’ve got more relevant experience than you think!
Build a ‘shadow portfolio’ - document 10 startups you would have invested in over the past 18 months, with clear theses and tracking against actual outcomes. Include why you passed on hyped companies that later failed. Show pattern matching between product decisions and investment decisions.
they want pedigree, not powerpoint. unless you’ve got a trust fund to make real angel bets, your ‘shadow portfolio’ is fan fiction. go get an MBA or die trying