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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. I personally use Salesforce.

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Beware of Premature Merge Elation

Both Sides of the Table

How much dilution should I take for it?&# My friend’s company was pre-revenue. I’m doing due diligence on a company of another entrepreneur in LA whose company was apparently doing very well. If they raise a bunch of capital little ole you isn’t going to be around to have your option pool topped up.

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10 Steps to Success With Angel Investors

Business Plan Blog

The entrepreneur will need to be ready and able to respond to due diligence information requests. This process may include the provision of various scenarios on revenues and costs as the investors validate forecasts initially presented. Conditions, such as: Satisfactory completion of due diligence and references.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Theyleave 20% as an options pool for later employees (but they setthings up so that they can issue this stock to themselves if theyget bought early and most is still unissued), and the three founderseach get 25%. So after this the option pool is down to 13.7%). [

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model.   Pre-bubble Siliicon Valley deals were popularly valued at multiples of revenue. This is why a bottom up approach is more credible.