How to Build an LP-Ready VC Fund Thesis: A Live Workshop

​The VC firm thesis is the single most important sentence you will write in your first year as a GP. It is the answer to "why you" and "why now" that every LP asks in the first meeting. The best emerging managers write a thesis that converts LPs in one or two meetings.

​In this session, I'll be running a live workshop where you'll be drafting your own thesis in real time using the workshop frameworks. In 60 minutes, Myrto Lalacos of The Emerging VC walks attendees through the frameworks that separate a real thesis from a slogan, and takes you from blank page to a working first draft you can start testing with LPs straight away.

​What you'll walk away with

• ​A clear view of what LPs actually care about when they read a thesis, and what most emerging managers get wrong

• ​Clarity on which parts of your background and credentials are the most LP-appealing, and how to lead with them in your thesis

• ​A first draft of your own thesis, built live using the workshop template

• ​Iteration frameworks for testing and sharpening your thesis in real LP conversations

​Who should attend

​Emerging GPs preparing to raise their first fund. Aspiring fund managers still shaping their positioning an preparing to launch a VC firm. Any GP with a "sort of" thesis that could benefit from some sharpening. Operators and angels making the move into venture and trying to articulate their edge.

​Format

​Live workshop. Bring a doc open. Come with a rough draft of your thesis (a paragraph is enough) or come blank. Either way, you'll leave with something to work with.

​About the speaker

​Myrto Lalacos is the founder of The Emerging VC, an independent platform for the next generation of fund managers. After years inside VC and helping launch more than 1,900 emerging GPs at VC Lab, Myrto now writes, hosts, and convenes the conversations that shape how the new generation of fund managers and VC leaders think and build.

​Presented by:

​The Emerging VC An independent platform with curated resources for new and emerging VC managers.