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One of the startup hacks that I realized early in my tech journey was that VCs are an incredible resource for figuring out the best startups to join, especially at the earliest stages. In a world where >50k startups get started every year, and >10k raise seed rounds, it can be daunting for an individual to figure out which private companies are showing promising signals and starting to grow. However, on the investment side, VCs have access to far more information, giving a guiding signal to some of those that may be most promising.

At Equal Ventures, we are laser focused on helping founders transform legacy industries. While many founders and firms speak about “disruption”, we feel transformation is a far more ambitious and holistic goal that better reflects the opportunity set for founders today. By definition, “disruption” implies the economic destruction of the existing value chain 1. For various reasons, this is incredibly rare, and more likely resembles a gradual take over. With that, however, we see a lot of founders focused on “disruption” without thinking through the potential for “enablement” or the overall impacts on the broader value chain.

We’re looking to bring on an intern focused on writing and editing firm-specific content on industry deep dives, business and technology strategy, early-stage investing and entrepreneurship. The content intern will work closely with the Equal team to create a library of articles based on internal research projects including our “prepared mind” thesis memos, startup strategy frameworks and venture market research. These articles will be shared across Equal’s network and social channels over the rest of the year. This internship will also include unique exposure to the investment thesis development process.

We’re looking to bring on an intern focused on writing and editing firm-specific content on industry deep dives, business and technology strategy, early-stage investing and entrepreneurship. The content intern will work closely with the Equal team to create a library of articles based on internal research projects including our “prepared mind” thesis memos, startup strategy frameworks and venture market research. These articles will be shared across Equal’s network and social channels over the rest of the year. This internship will also include unique exposure to the investment thesis development process.

One of our core values at Equal Ventures is to have a “prepared mind” and I often get asked “what does that actually mean?”. For us, a prepared mind is an informed point of view on a space, industry and/or business model that enables us to be additive partners to the founders we work with. We develop this point of view by 1) focusing on the spaces we think are most impactful to our thesis, 2) broadly researching (qualitatively and quantitatively) those spaces on a continuous basis, and 3) developing “prepared mind deep-dives” on individual ideas we find most exciting (see here for a redacted version of our “prepared mind deep dive” that we did on the commercial energy efficiency market prior to investing in David Energy).