Five Learnings After Five Years as a Venture Capitalist

Connetic Ventures

10 min readMar 12, 2021

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By: Kyle Schlotman, Managing Partner and CIO of Connetic Ventures

It is amazing how time flies by, it feels like just yesterday I was leaving my stable job with great benefits, in Corporate America, to journey out into the world of Venture Capital.

Despite knowing very little about the industry, being a Venture Capitalist had been my…

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