Investment Intern

London, United Kingdom

Job Title                   Intern

Department              Investment Team

Reports to                Partners

Direct reports          None

Duration                   3 months

The Role

The Interns role will include, but is not limited to, the following key tasks:

• Social Media - develop communications and 20VC brand on social media. This includes studying all 20VC podcast releases and extracting content that is relevant to publish on platforms including LinkedIn & Twitter. Take ownership of the 20VC Newsletter, regular distribution & subscriber management.
• Research - harness a data-driven approach to researching emerging sector themes for 20VC deal sourcing.
• Sourcing - develop insights on new companies being formed and/or gaining traction via platforms such as Product Hunt, GitHub, AppSumo & LinkedIn.
• Due Diligence - aid the investment team in diligencing investment opportunities. This includes customer research, and product & competitor analysis. Support in the writing and presenting of detailed investment papers.
• Meetings - join the investment team on calls/meetings with start-ups.
• General - stay up to date on European deal activity via network and/or publicly available data.

The Person

The person we are looking for will:

• Live and breathe start-ups
• Be intensely curious and very humble
• Show us cool things that they have done in a creative way
• Be good at selling, be able to tell a story and inspire those around you

The Application Process

Below are the 7 Powers of Business Strategy:

1. Scale Economies: A business in which per unit cost declines as production volume increases.
2. Network Economies: The value of a service to each user increases as new users join the network.
3. Counter Positioning: A newcomer adopts a new, superior business model which the incumbent does not mimic due to anticipated damage to their existing business.
4. Switching Costs: The value loss expected by a customer that would be incurred from switching to an alternative supplier for additional purchases.
5. Branding: The durable attribution of higher value to an objectively identical offering that arises from historic info about the seller.
6. Concerned Resource: Preferential access at attractive terms to a coveted asset that can independently enhance value.
7. Process Power: Embedded company organisation and activity sets which enable lower costs and/or superior product.

We would like you to analyse a business of your choice according to the seven powers and submit this in the form of your choosing. Be as creative as you want and attach either a document or link to your answer in the application form below.