Software is eating Venture Capital for breakfast - Be an expert on VC tech

📌 Key facts

Mission: Be an expert when it comes to software for venture capital firms • When: flexible • How to apply: Send us an e-mail (at the end of this page) with your CV and grade report

Contents

• 💡 Background
• 🦾Who We Are
• 🧠 Topics of Interest
• 🎓 Expectations
• 📬 How to Apply

💡 Background

In Q2 2022 alone, more than 700 startups were founded in Germany (Statista, 2022). Most of these startups consist of a founding team with more than one founder. While this brings advantages, e.g., in terms of different previous experiences, it also increases the risk of leaving the team due to team conflicts (Howarth, 2022).

To find out more about what makes a startup team thrive, we founded “The Gottman Initiative”.

Your role will be to take a deep look into the market landscape of VC tech. You’ll conduct multiple strategic analyses to provide us with an overview technologies helping venture capital firms to make an educated guess. VCs will be quite interested in the findings of your thesis…

Sounds interesting?! It definitely is!

🦾Who We Are

The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. Topics include Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership, and Teams. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies, and organizations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.

🧠 Topics of Interest

• Venture capital
• Software
• Strategy
• Startups

🎓 Expectations

• You are interesting in working on your thesis or project study with us. Your work will have a real life impact on the venture capital software landscape.
• Your work is super accurate and your creativity is contagious. Thus, you’re highly motivated to deliver excellent results.
• Ideally, you bring prior experience in venture capital, software or startups.

📬 How to Apply

• Please indicate your preferred start date and motivation in your application.
• Please don’t use ChatGPT within your application. Please write briefly and precisely, as you will do in your project work/ thesis.
• Please send your complete application documents (CV, Transcript of Records) in one pdf file to felix.kuhn@tum.de.
• After reading the thesis description, you still have questions? Feel free to contact your potential supervisor Felix Kuhn.