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

Tim Keane

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. Signup for email updates. Enter your Email. October 2012.   What happens to them?

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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. Email This BlogThis! I appreciate your thoughts here on Due Diligence as it's been a question of mine for a few months now.

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Thinking about pricing - Startups and angels: Along the way to success

Tim Keane

Due diligence: An Entrepreneurs Perspective » October 19, 2006. Signup for email updates. Enter your Email. October 2012. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model.

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ProfessorVC: Card Counting for Investors

Professor VC

Email This BlogThis! Labels: due diligence , early stage investing , moneyball , valuation. ► 2012. (1). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. Steve Bennet. at 2:32 PM. 2 comments: Kevin Dick.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model. .   And if they are built from the top down, they’re pretty much useless. [3]

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When All Else Fails.Manipulate The Data - Startups and angels.

Tim Keane

If my process of reviewing a business plan helps the entrepreneur to align the performance plan with my growth expectations and then to base the plan on a "reasonable" set of assumptions that subsequently prove to be optimistic, who is to blame? Signup for email updates. Enter your Email. October 2012.

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ProfessorVC: Would a Dart Board Provide better VC Returns?

Professor VC

I know there are at least a few of you as I received several emails this week along the lines of "no new posts since November???" 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.