Over at the blog of my role model Guy Kawasaki is an entertaining entry titled The Venture Capital Aptitude Test, or VCAT for short. Guy makes it quite clear that:
Venture capital is something to do at the end of your career, not the beginning. It should be your last job, not your first.
The test is really more of a mental exercise rather than those silly web tests whose results bloggers love to post (“Which Three's Company Landlord Are You?”). The gist of the article is that you shouldn't become a VC until after “you’ve had the shiitake kicked out of you.”
(Come to think of it, George and I know a couple of VCs that we'd love to kick the shiitake out of…)