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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

Professor VC

How Much Diligence is Due.Or Ive addressed the due diligence question in previous posts, but this came up again in a debate we were having at a recent meeting of the Sand Hill Angels. And in order to increase our groups returns, one of our goals should be to get more people and man hours involved in the diligence process.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

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Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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Then Dhana Cohen pitched TheNextBigZing.com where she has collected various merchants with video reviews of products. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. She wants to sell these products on her site. PowerStores.in.

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Being The Best You Can Be - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

Forward to the past: The (re) rise of direct marketing » October 08, 2008. Last week, our angel group reviewed a business with an online lie detector technology.  Last week, our angel group reviewed a business with an online lie detector technologyBootstrapping. Categories.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

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And EVEN if you ARE an experienced entrepreneur, all but just a few VCs still want to see customer validation, business model validation and traction, before they will invest. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. Next comes the topic of angels. Kir Devries. Photo by takatuka.

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ProfessorVC: Card Counting for Investors

Professor VC

Dan Frommer, in Moneyball for tech startups , interviewed Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, Paul Graham and Ben Horowitz on the topic. And given that four of the most important tech investors in the world seem skeptical of it, if someone can figure out a good formula that works, they may be able to exploit it". How Much Diligence is Due.

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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

Professor VC

DEMO has always been one of my favorite tech conferences. Labels: #democon , DEMO , tech conferences , vuvuzela. How Much Diligence is Due. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). I spent the past couple of days at the conference and certainly felt like it. There wasnt a lot of buzz in the air. Steve Bennet.