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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

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These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.” So junior analysis of your company is also often where initial due diligence goes to die unless you can be sure that the investment partner is also willing to engage. Wait, there’s more!

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Asking Questions More Effectively

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It is designed to get the person your asking to reveal more than they would if your question directed them toward a more narrowly defined path. THE ANALYSIS MEETING: I once was doing some due diligence work on an industry. And a properly steered wide set of questions gives you facts you’d never expect.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 6) Due diligence. 3) Raise capital.