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Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 4, 2012
This is the dreaded “due diligence” process. In my view, understanding due diligence can only improve information flow, and leads to a better long-term partnership with your investor. Technical due diligence typically starts with a full one or two day review with the engineering and product marketing staff.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 22, 2010
This is the dreaded “due diligence” process. In my view, understanding due diligence can only improve information flow, and leads to a better long-term partnership with your investor. Technical due diligence typically starts with a full one or two day review with the engineering and product marketing staff.
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Gust
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
This is the dreaded “due diligence” process. In my view, understanding due diligence can only improve information flow, and leads to a better long-term partnership with your investor. Technical due diligence typically starts with a full one or two day review with the engineering and product marketing staff.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 11, 2016
A business needs technical, marketing, financial and many other skills. Angel investors expect to review a short executive summary before booking time to hear an investor presentation or taking the time to analyze a full business plan. Assemble a team with the requisite expertise and experience.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
They’re not in search of price fixing or collusion, they’re in search of diligence information about the company. What is their market traction? Convertible or equity? It is such a small community that it is hard to raise money by stealth. So is the market really colluding? How well do you know them?
David Teten
JULY 25, 2017
Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. For each of these, there is a human element (non-scaleable) and the possibility of a tech layer (which any one VC will only have implemented to varying extents).
cdixon.org
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I have a personal diligence rule that when speaking to people at large companies, the facts that they tell you are very useful but their opinions about startup ideas no more valuable than any other smart person’s opinions). Very, very few markets have room for only one player. I’ve personally never heard of it happening.
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