Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

agile sales process? how should a VC do due diligence on sales operations? getting past the assistant. when to call. is it OK to call an exec on his mobile phone. how to handle intros. What is your sales process? call high or call low? how do you forecast? how do you do pipeline reviews? Telesales versus field sales?

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Software Review Sales Due Diligence Startup 300

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2020

– Overall, finding the right time and date, not to mention performing all necessary due diligence and onboarding, is a tall task for often-shorthanded HR teams at a hectic time of the year. But these difficulties look a bit different once HR is equipped with modern collaboration tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. Strategic proficiency.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. Of all the security threats mentioned here, this is probably the one that requires most due diligence and is the most difficult to identify.

Security 140

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Since there weren’t corporate resource for further evaluation, (one of our programs’ constraints was not to create new permanent infrastructures for implementation,) we had no choice but to assign the idea to a business unit and ask them to perform due diligence the best they could. (By Lessons Learned.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

When I do due diligence on a potential funding candidate, I always inpect high levels of employee change, and low morale indicators. Accountable leaders and teams realize that pivots are often required, and the agility to make changes to the product, business model, and even the customer set, must be part of every accountable culture.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Insight During Our Due Diligence – We frequently touch base with these people when we are looking at a potential new investment where the advisor has unique insight. In some cases​,​ the advisors’ companies form business relationships with startups NextView is ​vetting​.

Software Review 113

Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur Cofounder 113

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2019

Logos that use a wolf in their design demonstrate a ferocity, agility, and clever edge that work especially well for sports-related logos. Therefore, do your due diligence and research your audience so you can make the best choices based on their specific backgrounds. Avoid conflict.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2012

Agile Management. On this blog, you’ll read about great ideas for becoming a more agile manager. The Agile Executive. Recommended Post: Reflections on Due Diligence ). Hospitality managers can find great ideas and insight for improvement through this blog. Recommended Post: The Mojito Method ).

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Board Effect

MARCH 17, 2021

The innovative platform provides the framework to allow your board to be agile and responsive in all of your board activities for the present and the future, so you can get rid of the noise and give your board’s work the due diligence it demands.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Insight During Our Due Diligence – We frequently touch base with these people when we are looking at a potential new investment where the advisor has unique insight. In some cases?,? the advisors’ companies form business relationships with startups NextView is ?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2015

Without positive cash flow, all companies (and small businesses in particular) likely won’t possess the agility necessary to respond to today’s quickly evolving business landscape. Businesses that lack positive cash flow—i.e.,

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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. Expo SF (May.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

They take months to do their due diligence, and then wonder if investing in a start is the right thing to do…you’re lucky to be surrounded by VC”s who get it, as opposed to Canadian VC’s who twiddle their thumbs more often than not, unless you’ve developed some new server load balancing platform or a microchip.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Up and Running

JUNE 8, 2015

So even when decision makers do their due diligence, cash flow problems may still arise from time to time—that’s just how it is. See Also The Complete Guide to Understanding Cash Flow. Negative cash flow is defined as not having enough cash on hand to pay immediate outstanding obligations.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

My favorite part of pitching to them was the due diligence process. For example, one of the angels I pitched to cared deeply about our competitive landscape, whereas another wasn’t too concerned about the competitive landscape, he was more interested in our financial assumptions and my team’s ability to implement in an agile fashion.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 21, 2013

This increased competitiveness has forced these funds to figure out how to be agile. You can do a lot of reference calls and market due diligence in 3-7 days. This is probably less true at the seed stage, but that intensity has spilled over into all segments where these firms invest.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Good to see someone with authority advocating an approach to building startups that we at Agile Entrepreneurs focus on, week after week. Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 17, 2011

My partner David wrote a good post on due diligence calls , so I won’t belabor the point here. And in a ridiculously competitive environment for talent, agility is a great asset and differentiator. Both in hiring and in firing. No need to drag things along.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

Keep the team small, agile and up-to-date. Most investors will sooner or later do an extensive due diligence anyway, so spend a little more time in advance to make sure you will be prepared for the future. KPI’s are different for each start-up. The trick is to find yours as quickly as possible.

Bankruptcy 121

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Curved lines are visibly flexible and can communicate agility and reactivity. Therefore, do your due diligence and research your audience so you can make the best choices based on their specific backgrounds. Curved lines , on the other hand, offer more energy and dynamism.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Curved lines are visibly flexible and can communicate agility and reactivity. Therefore, do your due diligence and research your audience so you can make the best choices based on their specific backgrounds. Curved lines , on the other hand, offer more energy and dynamism.

Design 48

Design Vertical Software Review Wichita 48

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Do your due diligence early and avoid legal and trademark issues further down the road. Therefore, do your due diligence and research your audience so you can make the best choices based on their specific backgrounds. Curved lines are visibly flexible and can communicate agility and reactivity. Typography.

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Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

We did due diligence on one another through resumes, reference checks, technical interviews, and spending time together (basically reviewing the items offered in the FounderDating application). I followed up with a few people having additional conversations about the business concept, and we continued pitching each other.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

You are small and agile, which means you have a high rate of innovation and growth, and with that comes work! Not Embracing Agility. "If While its vital to have goals and a clear vision, to survive and thrive youll have to keep an open mind and stay agile enough to follow the path where it leads." — Jeff Jackel , CEO, BuzzMob.

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Cofounder Technical Review Startup Software Review 111

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

ALT.NET is a large sector of the.NET community that isn’t satisfied with the status quo and wants to find the best, most agile way to do things. This is about the mental agility, inquisitiveness and determination of a coder. One prominent example: Stack Overflow. What would you say to an ALT.NET developer?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Agile eLearning. Due Diligence.

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