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#334: Turner Novak – Breaking Into VC Through Twitter

The Danny Miranda Podcast

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How to Make a Fake Portfolio of Startups

"I didn't have any money. Like traditionally the advice if you're getting into VC is like, oh, just angel invest," he says. "So I kind of came up with this idea: I just like hacked it together." He created a fake portfolio of startups and wrote memos on each one but had no professional training to really know what he was doing. That's how he got some interviews - by creating a fake track record.

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