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. 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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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

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. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

For angel groups, the distinction between groups and VCs on this issue is dwindling, especially as angel groups do bigger rounds of financing.   Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.   First , dividends.

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Tim Keane

AUGUST 21, 2006

Can you think of the whole process of due diligence not primarily as a verification of high growth process but perhaps as a joint learning activity? As the venture progresses from financing to revenue (whether financed by an investor or the entrepreneur) that first big, critical issue has to be the first miss on projections.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

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.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. On that front, I take pride in the second headline with news that Fliqz , where I am CFO, just closed on $6 million in Series C financing. At Fliqz, we met or exceeded the sales plan every month during the due diligence process.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Email This BlogThis! Labels: due diligence , financial analysis , venture capital. ► 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. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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