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How To Prepare Your New Venture For Investor Scrutiny

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the mysterious and dreaded due diligence process, which can kill the whole deal. Some entrepreneurs do very little to prepare for due diligence, assuming all the talking has already been done, and the business plan and results to-date tell the right story. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground.

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4 Keys To A Successful Integrity Check With Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the mysterious and dreaded due diligence process, which can kill the whole deal. Some entrepreneurs do very little to prepare for due diligence, assuming all the talking has already been done, and the business plan and results to-date tell the right story. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground.

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How Smart Startups Survive Investor Due Diligence

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the mysterious and dreaded due diligence process, which can kill the whole deal. Some entrepreneurs do very little to prepare for due diligence, assuming all the talking has already been done, and the business plan and results to-date tell the right story. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking. He said that data suggests people prefer to “buy high, sell low.&# And so it goes in tech investing. Or a quick flip.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Yet the copper companies import nearly 100% of the advanced technology they use.

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Bending over: How to sell to large companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates. The license agreement's primary purpose, then, is to get past the customer's legal team quickly, because they stand between you and a sale. Is there progress on getting the sale done?

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. I had taken the job of VP of Marketing in a company emerging from bankruptcy. Drive that demand into our sales channels. Educate our sales channel(s). All good news.

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