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Article: A good venture capitalist is hard to find

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November 20, 2000
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Influx of Investment Capital Has Firms Searching for Talent to Make More Deals

So you want to be a venture capitalist? Experience the thrill of the big risk and the even bigger thrill of the big-money payoff? Bask in the prestige of perhaps the sexiest job title in the market today?

Well, it's not impossible-but you better have one heck of a resume. VC firms-rolling in investment funds and eager to make more deals- are looking, but they say a good venture capitalist is hard to come by.

Not that they don't have plenty of people beating down their doors.

Thomas Gephart, a Wer with Irvine-based Ventana Global, said he encountered a man with a decade or so of managerial experience and an ...

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