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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

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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. And in order to increase our groups returns, one of our goals should be to get more people and man hours involved in the diligence process.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

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On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” Different Economics.

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ProfessorVC: Card Counting for Investors

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However, I have seen some blog posts posing the question about whether the same principles of valuing baseball players could be applied to entrepreneurs. Dan Frommer, in Moneyball for tech startups , interviewed Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, Paul Graham and Ben Horowitz on the topic. Blog Archive. How Much Diligence is Due.

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ProfessorVC: Why I Hate Convertible Debt.Let Me Count the Ways

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We werent able to declare a winner, but I did agree to write a blog post on the topic. This will also serve as a good pointer for all the entrepreneurs who ask why I am not interested in their company led convertible note financing round. Technically, the start-up is insolvent from the day they take the first dollar of investment.

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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

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DEMO has always been one of my favorite tech conferences. Labels: #democon , DEMO , tech conferences , vuvuzela. Blog Archive. How Much Diligence is Due. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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ProfessorVC: Buyer's Remorse

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Of course, rigorous diligence is performed, the team is challenged, and assumptions are tested. I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class. However, I was glad to see they were able to raise financing and launch the service. Blog Archive.