Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Conduct extensive due diligence on the team, the product and the market opportunity. We had an interesting dialog about the various start-up ecosystems - Silicon Valley, Boston , NYC - and how long it takes to build that ecosystem. education). When evaluating whether you want to join a company, think like an investor.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. Many hiring managers don't realize that the due diligence process for a candidate is as thorough, if not more so, than your due diligence on them.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The adjunct to this point is that while relatively few entrepreneurs methodically do it, it’s important to perform due diligence on the investors you’re talking with, just as they’ll be performing due diligence on you.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

They take months to do their due diligence, and then wonder if investing in a start is the right thing to do…you’re lucky to be surrounded by VC”s who get it, as opposed to Canadian VC’s who twiddle their thumbs more often than not, unless you’ve developed some new server load balancing platform or a microchip.

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David Teten

JANUARY 2, 2013

I’m traveling to Atlanta and Boston this month, so starting to plan my logistics. My suggestion to Uber: as you evaluate whom to partner with in the New York market, do your due diligence. You can’t hire in courtesy and managerial competence; it has to flow from company management outwards.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2010

I’m on an Acela train between Boston and New York (listening to Boston’s More Than A Feeling – how recursive) on my way to the TechStars Boston 2010 Investor / Demo day. But there’s no reason for an angel investor – especially an individual one – to drag the entrepreneur through a long, protracted due diligence process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

I was the junior guy on a project team; I was called in to do some technical due diligence for reasons that were obscure to me, because the team already had much more senior engineers assigned to it. And like feedback on a simple microphone sound system, this would occasionally boil over into screeching. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

I suspect that this seems reasonable if there is basically no due diligence due to the early stage of the companies. (By A legal opinion for a newly-incorporated early stage company probably doesn’t add much to the due diligence process and is probably unnecessary compared to the incremental cost to prepare.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

Boston, USA Oct 1st – 3rd, 2018. Boston, USA. Boston, USA. He is a respected expert in the industry with particular expertise in due diligence, online business valuation and strategic exit planning. Business of Software. Business of Software is smaller than most of the conferences on this list—by design.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

This week, we helped organize an Angel Bootcamp where some of Boston’s most successful angel investors shared their experiences and lessons learned to a crowd of aspiring angels and entrepreneurs. They also should be doing due diligence of some sort. It was a terrific event with some really unique content and stories.

Syndicate 66

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can minimize risk by performing due diligence when selecting a company or individual to work with, clearly defining the project scope, expectations and milestones in any development contracts, and allocating enough money to hire competent developers. Boston Globe" Pilots Site Checkins a.

Software Developers 79

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 15, 2009

In another start-up a number of years ago, he had been backed by an unamed firm in Boston, led by an unamed partner, and made them money. "Why They don't do their due diligence on partners and check references carefully on the individual board member.". "If Why aren't you going back to [insert name] at [insert firm]?"

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

In Boston thebiggest is the CommonAngels. By accepting the term sheet, the startup agrees to turnaway other VCs for some set amount of time while this firm does the"due diligence" required for the deal. VCs legal and financialdue diligence is pretty thorough, but the technical due diligenceis generally a joke. [

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Detailed due diligence. The Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion ” that the best performing VC funds are based in the major venture centers (Silicon Valley, Boston, and the New York area), but their best investments are outside of those geographies. Profiled initially. Target Selected. 10,000 [v].

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

It’s a management and engineering consulting company in Boston. I moved from Boston to San Francisco and ended up at oDesk for about five years in a variety of different roles. Once upon a time I was a mechanical engineer, MIT student, and basically went into consulting for about four years at a company called Arthur D.

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