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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. I developed a list of questions to ask you next time we speak?—?especially What do I do now? I know you emailed me and I emailed you back.

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Asking Questions More Effectively

Both Sides of the Table

developing a product you might like to survey prospective customers without biasing their answers. THE ANALYSIS MEETING: I once was doing some due diligence work on an industry. There are many different meeting types where asking different types of questions may be appropriate. doing a reference call on a prospective employee.

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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.

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Metrics that matter to social platforms (Part 1/3)

Version One Ventures

As we have been developing our investment thesis on social platforms , we want to provide the similar information and tools. We hope this tool helps founders manage their business and preempts those due diligence questions that arise during a fundraise. After we understand engagement and churn, we can perform cohort analysis.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. Make sure you’ve done the due diligence on all of these areas of your business. You have to do some due diligence. Pretend that you are the investor. ” You better be able to back everything up.