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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

Professor VC

Thursday, January 27, 2011. I strongly believe (at least for very early stage technology ventures) that you will get diminishing returns and arguably negative returns once you get past an initial threshold of team, product, market and financial diligence. Instead, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

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Our name was so disconnected from our business model that we were in the midst of a protracted and expensive name change initiative (along with a small army of consultants), at the time we sold Expertcity to Citrix. Unfortunately, we never made a dime from the 3-D algorithm. Copyright © 2007 - 2011 infoChachkie.

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ProfessorVC: Would a Dart Board Provide better VC Returns?

Professor VC

Rather than going through their networks or targeting specific sectors for deal flow, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies. ► 2011. (7). I have to build a financial model? They have raised a fund to provide seed funding of $50-$250K to 100-200 start-ups. Older Post. Twitter Updates. Blog Archive.