Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2023

He started an up and down career as an entrepreneur at an early age, and has since gathered experience and success in Europe and the USA on all sides of the business equation, including philanthropy. I find too many entrepreneurs are surprised later by onerous investor expectations and hidden terms.

Technical Review 373

Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Entrepreneur 373

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2012

Below is a table of the equity Crowdfunding platforms operating in Europe: Location. Vetting/Due dilligence by platform. Perform due diligence once target raised. Board of professional investors do their own due diligence before investing. Perform due diligence before raise. Maximum of 1 year.

Equity 160

Equity Europe Due Diligence Startup 160

Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Conducting Due Diligence Conducting due diligence in private equity law is crucial to any investment and can reveal potential compliance issues that are not easily spotted. However, with the high stakes and tight timeframes of many PE transactions, completing a due diligence process is often tricky.

Private Equity 52

Private Equity Equity Due Diligence Securities and Exchange Commission 52

Gust

JULY 12, 2012

On May 2nd and 3rd, I led workshops for about thirty Estonian investors on syndication, due diligence, valuation and the post-investment relationship with entrepreneurs. We found Tallinn to be both a delightful place to visit and the best preserved medieval city in Northern Europe. Isaac’s Cathedral.

Community 121

Community Estonia Ireland Finland 121

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. Another example is Correlation Ventures ($300M+ AUM), a VC firm which co-invests in financings with at least one other new outside VC.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Unlike 1st generation discs, their discs have an elastomeric core that provides a more natural range of motion, and have already received CE mark in Europe and are in clinical trials in the U.S. Please note that all angels, members of HBS Angels or not, are responsible for their own due diligence. presenting companies.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review New York Accredited Investor IP 128

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

the American market is under-developed compared to Europe. Instead, do your research and due diligence and be prepared to adapt your business model several times before it will work in the U.S. For example, in my specific sector?—?communications communications services?—?the

Austin 48

Austin Technical Review Marketing Due Diligence 48

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. I saw VCs doing crazy things in 2007-08 when I first entered the VC market – crazy prices, limited due diligence, large funding rounds. “Yeah, but there is a shortage of supply. The fundamentals are different now!

Florida 299

Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

entrepreMusings

JUNE 1, 2010

These were the types of boats that people used to transfer port wine to different parts of the Europe and the world. We were there giving a workshop on incubation management that included exercises on negotiations, case studies, due diligence best practices when selecting companies, how to mentor companies, etc.

Portugal 28

Portugal Technical Review Incubator Due Diligence 28

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

These new super angels are really signals in that marketplace that are causing others to invest or not invest based on their due diligence and research. Think of individuals like McClure, Paul Graham and George Zachary as market analysts. davidhaber Index analogy isn't exactly apt either. startupcto

Technical Review 50

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

That said, it’s your responsibility to do proper due diligence on the investors you are about to meet. Generally speaking, there are more benefits than detriments in sharing your idea (Chris Dixon has a good post about being the opposite of secretive ).

Elevator Pitch 103

Elevator Pitch Incubator Technical Review Startup 103

Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

Naming a company is always a time consuming process that requires due diligence. In my case, I grew up in an apartment in a country in Europe where we refer to apartments to as “flats” After an exhaustive search and writing down name after name it dawned on me. I should know as that is one of the services I offer my clients.

Naming 48

Naming Technical Review PR LLC 48

Babbling VC

JANUARY 30, 2011

A tier 1 fund from Europe is interested. I've often enough written about how to figure this out and I say to focus on the partner and not the fund when doing your due diligence. because Tier 1 funds in Europe tend to only differentiate themselves based on where they are located. Have they invested in Europe before?

Europe 68

Europe Germany Due Diligence Valuation 68

Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

I basically chose almost from the point where I moved to Europe back in the 90's to figure out a way to "work" in Slovakia. . Again, the companies I found and people whom I did due diligence on somehow never checked all the right boxes. Everyone had or has their reasons, but I chose to see things from a different perspective.

Slovakia 40

Slovakia Due Diligence Europe Founder 40

Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

I basically chose almost from the point where I moved to Europe back in the 90's to figure out a way to "work" in Slovakia. . Again, the companies I found and people whom I did due diligence on somehow never checked all the right boxes. Everyone had or has their reasons, but I chose to see things from a different perspective.

Slovakia 40

Slovakia Due Diligence Europe Founder 40

VC Cafe

JULY 30, 2012

6) Equity Crowdfunding – I’ve covered the different types of Crowdfunding on the post Startup Equity Crowdfunding grows in Europe. 9) Get media/blog coverage before you launch – staying on the traction point, any prospecting investor will do its due diligence on the company, product or team.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Startup Equity Due Diligence 113

Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

And a few months later (after what felt like hundreds of hours of due diligence work, but was more like 40-50), I found myself staring at a newly augmented bank balance and my list of applications that had once approached a dozen in number… now standing at 1. Selling something of this scale is hard.

Software Review 27

Software Review Due Diligence Thailand Acquisition 27

Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

And a few months later (after what felt like hundreds of hours of due diligence work, but was more like 40-50), I found myself staring at a newly augmented bank balance and my list of applications that had once approached a dozen in number… now standing at 1. Selling something of this scale is hard.

Software Review 27

Software Review Due Diligence Thailand Acquisition 27

Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

And a few months later (after what felt like hundreds of hours of due diligence work, but was more like 40-50), I found myself staring at a newly augmented bank balance and my list of applications that had once approached a dozen in number… now standing at 1. Selling something of this scale is hard.

Software Review 27

Software Review Due Diligence Thailand Acquisition 27

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

If something caught my eye, I’d immediately send a message to them, or do a little due diligence to see what the website was about. The problem with acting quickly is you also have to do your due diligence to make sure you’re not buying a lemon, so there’s a real fine balance there and an element of risk.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

A lean business plan absorbs after that, after you’ve decided you want to go to Europe or you want to go to the beach or somewhere warm, then you get into making the execution happen. After the pitch, we’ll ask them for the business plan, and then we’ll use the business plan to do the due diligence.

Lean 60

Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

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.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

DirectX uses a left-hand coordinate system because it was originally written in Europe and called Rendermorphics. Historically in 2D drafting (or ‘draughting’ in Europe) The US and Europe laid the three principal orthographic views (Top, Front, and Side) on the paper in differing layouts. RedneckCodeMachine.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Due Diligence. IAB Europe. Top startups in Europe. DoubleVerify. Dr Eli Oppper. Dr Miki Tamir. Draper University. DreamIt Ventures. Dreamstake. DroidSecurity. Dror Ceder. Dror Nahumi. dror sofer. Dune Networks. Dyslexic Entrepreneurs. e-commerce. EarlySense. ebiz mobility. Erez Pilosof. Eric Behamou. Eric Benhamou.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53