abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

How Much Diligence is Due.Or Ive addressed the due diligence question in previous posts, but this came up again in a debate we were having at a recent meeting of the Sand Hill Angels. I appreciate your thoughts here on Due Diligence as it's been a question of mine for a few months now. ProfessorVC.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley San Jose 31

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers. Post-Mortem Title : Untitled Partners Post-Mortem. Company : Untitled Partners. Finances were just one part of the story. Review our Guide to Reverse Due Diligence on Investors.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

My first reaction is incredulity that limited partners would buy into this idea. Of course, given the state of venture returns, perhaps randomly picking from a stack of business plans would provide as good or better results than an entrepreneur selection algorithm or detailed due diligence. Steve Bennet. at 1:42 PM. Newer Post.

San Jose 28

San Jose Silicon Valley Venture Capital Angel Investor 28

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. On that front, I take pride in the second headline with news that Fliqz , where I am CFO, just closed on $6 million in Series C financing. At Fliqz, we met or exceeded the sales plan every month during the due diligence process.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

If youve got a large growing market, solid team, strong competitive position and compelling solution, youll move forward with diligence, which can range from going with your gut to doing detailed projections, numerous reference calls and deep market analysis. I was a limited partner in Angel Investors, LP, Ron Conways fund in the late 1990s.

San Jose 33

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