Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Product or service readiness. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process.

Technical Review 237

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 237

Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2017

As Ada Support launches its automated chat platform from stealth and announces an impressive $2.5 With Mike and David ferociously developing product and doing sales, they launched the Ada bot with early customers like Medium, Kik and Wattpad. The story underscores the importance of perseverance and having the right founding team.

Artificial Inteligence 151

Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley Stealth Term Sheet 151

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2010

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Product or service readiness. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process.

Technical Review 225

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 225

Gust

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Product or service readiness. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process.

Technical Review 152

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 152

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

They had received a term sheet from a VC and were wondering whether to work with this firm. But what about once you have a term sheet? I list all of the companies (except one in stealth) on my blog and this includes both VC investments and angel ones. But what was the VC like when the chips were down?

Term Sheet 298

Term Sheet Venture Capital Stealth Cofounder 298

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles. Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Analyze the mentors not just in what those mentors currently do or did when you were in middle school — but also how they fit with your team and your startup’s product. If so, check out the lay of the land to determine if your startup can be productive in the office space. Do they know your space?

Incubator 105

Incubator Pre-Money Valuation Option Pool Advisory Board 105