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10 Tips On Due Diligence On Any Startup Funding Offer

Startup Professionals Musings

Deposit required to hold your terms. In this scam, you are offered a very attractive term sheet due to close in 90 days or so, with a deposit required to hold your position while due diligence is being conducted. Chain emails leading to a windfall. Delete the message. You risk being charged with fraud if you participate.

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10 Scams To Avoid While Seeking New Venture Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Deposit required to hold your terms. In this scam, you are offered a very attractive term sheet due to close in 90 days or so, with a deposit required to hold your position while due diligence is being conducted. Chain emails leading to a windfall. Delete the message. You risk being charged with fraud if you participate.

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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 raced home to put my kids to bed, say hello to my wife and then spend a grueling administrative hour doing email. What do I do now?

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. Second – don’t send unsolicited emails to VCs.

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How Much Information Should you Give VCs for Due Diligence?

Both Sides of the Table

One VC (I won’t name but with whom I still won’t work today) called Marc Benioff directly. He forwarded an annoyed email to my main contact at Salesforce. The only real benefit of their having this information is in preparation for a term sheet. ” Heading into a Term Sheet – Final Due Diligence.

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Both sides must be fair in a term sheet negotiation.

Berkonomics

A good example was during the negotiation of a term sheet. These usually involve a handful of angel investors, and a few entrepreneurs, who all want to build the very best term sheet for their exciting nascent enterprise. Email readers, continue here.]

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10 Ways Aspiring Entrepreneurs Are Often Victimized

Startup Professionals Musings

Deposit required to hold your terms. In this scam, you are offered a very attractive term sheet due to close in 90 days or so, with a deposit required to hold your position while due diligence is being conducted. Chain emails leading to a windfall. Delete the message. You risk being charged with fraud if you participate.