How to become a VC

I think Fred Wilson, summarizes it well:

“If you want to make top tier returns in the venture capital business….The way you do that is you work for at least 10 years in the industry, getting operating experience, building a killer rolodex, and learning how the business works from the inside. Then in your mid-to-late 30s, you can make the move to the venture capital business, as a partner, not as a wet behind the ears associate who doesn’t know anything other than how to push numbers around a spreadsheet.” -Fred Wilson, a partner at venture capital firm Union Square Ventures