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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 24, 2021
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.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 6, 2023
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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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 17, 2015
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.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
It’s imperative to perform a due diligence check before entering into any business relationship — especially for an entrepreneur. For example, according to ADP’s 2009 hiring index , 46 percent of résumés reviewed showed discrepancies. Now, don’t get me wrong: Most people don’t lie on their résumés. Knowing What to Look For.
Gust
DECEMBER 22, 2011
Tech startups are at the other extreme. Even in purely online businesses, to scale from zero to millions of users: in the 1990s, an Internet company might have had to build a whole data center from scratch (as we did at Excite@Home, only to ultimately shut it down in bankruptcy ). Instagram is a textbook example.)
Steve Blank
JANUARY 4, 2011
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.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 9, 2011
Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy. Let’s review all of our existing investments. Not just tech companies but industrials, too. I’ll bet many of them did a review of their “investment pace&# as in – how quickly should we be investing. And don’t think tech will remain immune.
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