Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

All private equity groups go about due diligence in their own way, but there are a few key areas of focus that entrepreneurs should always expect: Team strength and health. Investors will likely talk to dozens of potential customers, starting with your reference list (undoubtedly well prepped). Market need and size validation.

Technical Review 237

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 237

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2010

All private equity groups go about due diligence in their own way, but there are a few key areas of focus that entrepreneurs should always expect: Team strength and health. Investors will likely talk to dozens of potential customers, starting with your reference list (undoubtedly well prepped). Market need and size validation.

Technical Review 225

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 225

Gust

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

All private equity groups go about due diligence in their own way, but there are a few key areas of focus that entrepreneurs should always expect: • Team strength and health. Investors will likely talk to dozens of potential customers, starting with your reference list (undoubtedly well prepped). No validated pain, no deal.

Technical Review 152

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 152

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Have you reference them? Convertible or equity? It is such a small community that it is hard to raise money by stealth. Typical questions: What do you think of management? How well do you know them? Have you looked at competition? How well financed is the competition? What is their market traction? How much are they raising?

Entrepreneur 292

Entrepreneur Technical Review Stealth Valuation 292

www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s how the pitch sounds from the engineer’s perspective: ‘For ten whole percent of equity, you will slave away to build a prototype out of my shitty idea, not have any say in the decision-making process…and oh yeah, you could be fired at any point.’ Date for a bit, then split the equity.

Founder 51

Founder Startup Cofounder Vesting 51

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The “deep” in deep learning refers to the depth of layers in a neural network.) The downside is that, unlike past DoD technology development – where the DoD leads it, can control it, and has the most advanced technology (like stealth and electronic warfare), in most cases the DoD will not have the most advanced algorithms or models.

Artificial Inteligence 422

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 422