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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. She was one of the lead engineers at Uber. What do I do now? It’s hard to completely grok reading it.

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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

Since there weren’t corporate resource for further evaluation, (one of our programs’ constraints was not to create new permanent infrastructures for implementation,) we had no choice but to assign the idea to a business unit and ask them to perform due diligence the best they could. (By Lessons Learned.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. engineers, designers, business developers). Coinvestors need to figure out ways to prioritize themselves in a VC’s preference stack for syndicating opportunities.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company. Typically 1-3 months of due diligence. Flexible VC offers you this. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. Cash collateral. 2-6 months.

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

Up and Running

Another assumption is that you’ve actually conducted due diligence on your own business, and these are the areas of your team, financials, your competition, your IP, market trends, because the best pitches I’ve ever delivered were when investors were raising their hands and asking me questions about, “How is your IP protected?”

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. One of my engineers once told me my favorite color was plaid. Don’t be the plaid guy.

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Shout Out to Seth Levine, or the In-N-Out burger startup

Scalable Startup

Investor groups are cutting out the management, bus dev, sales, and marketing professionals, trying to get raw, young engineering teams that have never negotiated a term sheet to give away their IP rights and equity for next to nothing. The signal to noise ratio continues to degrade, but it’s actually moving into the next phase.