Steve Blank
MARCH 19, 2009
When I went through their financials as part of my due diligence I realized that if they ditched their low margin disk drive products, it wouldn’t take much to make them a profitable company. So perhaps a more accurate description was that the company was a “restart.” To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!
Steve Blank
JULY 7, 2009
luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
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Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2009
During the due-diligence process, I sat down with one of the partners who pulled out a set of slides and asked me: ”Have you seen these?” Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. Are These Your Slides? To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!
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APRIL 13, 2011
RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. So I was on the front line of this very aggressive rollup and I got involved in helping with the technical due diligence…”. “As
Software By Rob
OCTOBER 11, 2008
Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong. If you’re in this position drop me an email and I will send you my copy. sent) October 11th, 2008 | Software Development Building your startup?
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JUNE 9, 2012
“When I was the lead [venture] investor on a deal, it was very important to be the industry expert,” Coats says, chiefly because of the knowledge and experience that experts bring to the due diligence process. It’s time consuming, but it makes sense for the first one or two venture investors to do that. Xconomy on Demand. Privacy/DMCA.
Software By Rob
FEBRUARY 28, 2012
How long into the discussion before you commenced diligence? Due diligence is the most important part of the process because it dictates whether you should move forward with the acquisition, and at what price. As such, due diligence consumed the majority of the two-month negotiation period between myself and the seller.
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