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Venture Capitals blog brings to you the very latest of books & news of the VC industry. Find humor in the industry with cartoons.
- Author: Steven Pin
- Listed in: Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions
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Recent Posts
We capitalized them...
An executive says to his VC partner in the above cartoon, "What burns my bottom about www.dazoosucks.com is that we capitalized them."...
Screening due diligence #5: Quality of accounting firm?
Who is the company's accounting firm?Early stage companies also need quality accounting advice and assistance to function and grow effectively. This generally involves three basic services. First, the law requires all companies to file tax returns, a...
Screening due diligence #4: Quality of Legal Counsel
Who is the company's legal counsel?To be successful, early-stage companies need good legal counsel. The road from start-up through high growth to successful maturity is much too hazardous to forge ahead without a high-quality and appropriately experi...
Screening due diligence #3: Quality of Other Equity Investors
Who are the company's existing investors, and who are the potential co-investors?Venture capitalists also often focus on the quality of companies' existing equity investors and potential current round coinvestors as a third screening mechanism. They ...
Screening due diligence #2: Quality of the Business Plan
What is the overall quality of the company's business plan?As a second screening mechanism, venture capitalists often scrutinize the business plans they receive to gauge the quality of general presentations, thoroughness, clarity, coherence, and focu...
Screening due diligence #1: Quality of Source
From what source did the deal come or by whom was the deal referred?A simple and effective screening mechanism used by many venture capitalists is to scrutinize the routes from which deals emerge. Venture capitalists overwhelmingly tend to favor deal...
