Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

angel investors invested $19 billion in 55,000 deals in 2008, with most of the investments being made in start-up or very early-stage companies. And members work together to implement due diligence to validate plans, statements, and history of entrepreneurial team. Investments commonly run around $600,000.

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JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated) CTO – London – Upto £80k Aneesh Chopra Named as Federal CTO This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 at 12:55 pm and is filed under articles. Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? Blog at WordPress.com.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

angel investors invested $19 billion in 55,000 deals in 2008, with most of the investments being made in start-up or very early-stage companies. And members work together to implement due diligence to validate plans, statements, and history of entrepreneurial team. Investments commonly run around $600,000.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Media Fragmentation and the Growth of Small Publishers » April 07, 2008. Before taking equity in a company I go through a VC-like investment and due diligence process. Posted by Steve on April 07, 2008 at 12:57 AM | Permalink. Posted by: Post Work | April 09, 2008 at 07:57 AM. Blog powered by TypePad.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Forward to the past: The (re) rise of direct marketing » October 08, 2008. Someone in the meeting suggested this would make an interesting HR applicant screening tool that may point to candidates who might be worth a bit more extra due diligence on the veracity of their assertions in an interview.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

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. I appreciate your thoughts here on Due Diligence as it's been a question of mine for a few months now. ► 2008. (14).

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www.xconomy.com

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.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Experienced angel and venture capital investors spend lot of time independently evaluating the investment opportunities (a process called “due diligence”). This due diligence has been shown (by Wiltbank ) to radically improve their returns on investment – helping investors pick the right new companies to fund.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 11, 2008

A few of the job titles include: Product Manager Systems Engineer Technology Due Diligence Analyst Technology Insurance Underwriter Intellectual Property Lawyer For someone looking to leave software development, this book would serve as a good starting point for additional research. Check out my book Like this post? at 9:03 am [.]

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Post a comment… We write about… net angel apache audit backup backup extraction bbc bcm.pabx best practice bootlaw bug business business angels business continuity c# call detail recording cdr chief technical officer chief technology officer christmas chrome cio code review colo consulting cto contract cto creative agencies credit card (..)

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 27, 2014

It’s hard to imagine he could have a coherent long-term plan given that his due diligence doesn’t extend to surnames. (It’s billion in 2008, when he took over, to $16.05 It’s since been corrected.). After all, long-term value usually results from long-term strategies crafted and executed by a strong leadership team.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

I suspect that this seems reasonable if there is basically no due diligence due to the early stage of the companies. (By A legal opinion for a newly-incorporated early stage company probably doesn’t add much to the due diligence process and is probably unnecessary compared to the incremental cost to prepare.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In 2008, my wife and I launched an online local newspaper, The Alternative Press, which was the alternative to our local hardcopy newspaper. 17 – Due Diligence. It was pool side, which just makes it more fun, also the out of the box atmosphere helped us be more creative! Thanks to Miriam Diwan, NowMoveMe. #8

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

I was the junior guy on a project team; I was called in to do some technical due diligence for reasons that were obscure to me, because the team already had much more senior engineers assigned to it. And like feedback on a simple microphone sound system, this would occasionally boil over into screeching.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Labels: due diligence , early stage investing , moneyball , valuation. ► 2008. (14). ProfessorVC is happy to have been included as one of the 50 Best Professor Blogs. Steve Bennet. at 2:32 PM. Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook. 2 comments: Kevin Dick. Thanks Steve. ► May. (1). ► March. (1).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. I might sink in 4 weeks analyzing the company and completing due diligence only to find out at the very end that previous investors are unreasonable. It is 2010. Solution: pass. before the world changed).

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Altgate

MARCH 17, 2009

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash. Push hard to set up the technical reviews, the due diligence meetings, the reference calls – whatever. They accepted my argument. It was December 1999.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Working within a network of angel investors also expands the pool of expert resources and helps divide the work of screening companies and investment due diligence. The Ohio TechAngels adapted this valuation methodology in 2008 to meet their needs and named it the Bill Payne Method.

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 26, 2009

In fact, in each of the four years betwen 2005-2008, an eerily precise 25% of deals were closed in Q3 (25.0%, 24.6%, 25.1% But this argument seems specious given that all the hard work on both sides happens 30-60 days before a deal is closed, when the VC does their due diligence and term sheets are negotiated.

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

That would be my due diligence on you if I was a technical partner--lots of people saying yes. Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Top Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Search Chat Links LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Flickr Last.fm

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

April 2008 Umair Haque wrote recently that the reason there arent more Googles isthat most startups get bought before they can change the world. Would thatmean too much due diligence? Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. Google might simply have been nothing but Yahoos or MSNs search box. It seems obvious.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

And a few months later (after what felt like hundreds of hours of due diligence work, but was more like 40-50), I found myself staring at a newly augmented bank balance and my list of applications that had once approached a dozen in number… now standing at 1. But this conversation changed the game for me.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

And a few months later (after what felt like hundreds of hours of due diligence work, but was more like 40-50), I found myself staring at a newly augmented bank balance and my list of applications that had once approached a dozen in number… now standing at 1. But this conversation changed the game for me.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

And a few months later (after what felt like hundreds of hours of due diligence work, but was more like 40-50), I found myself staring at a newly augmented bank balance and my list of applications that had once approached a dozen in number… now standing at 1. But this conversation changed the game for me.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Of course, given the state of venture returns, perhaps randomly picking from a stack of business plans would provide as good or better results than an entrepreneur selection algorithm or detailed due diligence. ► 2008. (14). ► May. (1). Can you start a company on $10K? ► March. (1). Bootstrapping 101.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

At Fliqz, we met or exceeded the sales plan every month during the due diligence process. Our lead investor, Triangle Peak Partners closed on a $170 million first fund in late 2008. ► 2008. (14). Same principle here. Prospective investors have a free look to see how you execute under the gun. ► May. (1).

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Labels: due diligence , financial analysis , venture capital. ► 2008. (14). In looking at that data, if Im a VC and promising LPs a 42% return, my "gut" might be telling me to to find another job when the fund is done. Steve Bennet. at 1:04 PM. Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook. 1 comment: LK said.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

If something caught my eye, I’d immediately send a message to them, or do a little due diligence to see what the website was about. The problem with acting quickly is you also have to do your due diligence to make sure you’re not buying a lemon, so there’s a real fine balance there and an element of risk.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Our 2008 fund looks spectacular. But they were never going to be convinced anyways once they did due diligence and realized we’re not a SV-focused fund. We’re the largest fund in Southern California. We were found to be the 5th most consistently performing fund in the country over the past 20 years by Prequin.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

2008) [iv]. Detailed due diligence. TA Associates. 2006) [iii]. Investing focus. growth companies. growth companies. Profiled initially. Target Selected. 10,000 [v]. Negotiated with. Acquired/ invested.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Post a comment… We write about… net angel apache audit backup backup extraction bbc bcm.pabx best practice bootlaw bug business business angels business continuity c# call detail recording cdr chief technical officer chief technology officer christmas chrome cio code review colo consulting cto contract cto creative agencies credit card (..)

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Review our Guide to Reverse Due Diligence on Investors. In a May 2008 blog post, The Challenges of Location-Based Social Networking , I include a few excerpts from his post-mortem, in which he essentially predicts FourSquare: Most importantly, there was a “location problem”. Follow us on twitter here. Posted in startups.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have put together a list of questions to ask your angel investor group contact: Do you charge any fees to present or during the due diligence process? I dont think its time to hang all angel investors in effigy, but remember that due diligence goes two ways. ► 2008. (14). Average size? Steve Bennet.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

About the company and the CEO: “David Barrett founded Expensify in May 2008; Witold Stankiewicz joined him in August 2008, and together they launched an Alpha product at TechCrunch 50, taking home the “DemoPit 2nd Place” prize. Working for or started something in 2008 that may or may not make it. April 2010.

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