Due Diligence Email Sales IP 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 9, 2018
You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. I raced home to put my kids to bed, say hello to my wife and then spend a grueling administrative hour doing email. What do I do now?
Software By Rob
FEBRUARY 28, 2012
Every question below has been asked via email, comment or Twitter over the past four weeks. Could you talk a bit about the diligence you did during the acquisition? How long into the discussion before you commenced diligence? I added prominent calls to actions on the most visited pages to funnel people into the sales flow.
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Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2009
The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. Are These Your Slides? I quickly leafed through them and replied, “Sure they’re our original slides.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 20, 2017
Of all your hires, if you have commissioned sales people, those will give you the most problems if they’re not all given an equal chance to make their quotas and achieve their personal earnings goals. Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. You’ve just got to listen.
Tim Keane
JANUARY 12, 2010
It also assumes the entire value of the investment is captured for investors at a sale of the company in the time specified in the term-sheet. This results in a range of sale prices; in this example from $118.6MM to $21MM. Let’s start at the end. So, let’s assume here we have an 8% non-cumulative dividend.
infochachkie.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Instead of hearing from your long lost third-cousin, you will be inundated with an avalanche of ‘congratulatory’ emails, calls and letters from people who want to relieve you of the burden of your hard-earned equity round. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. VC, sales, biz dev, M&A or otherwise. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. I’d send them their email and point out the docs were late.
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