This comprehensive guide offers a full explanation of the venture capital due diligence process, from using screening mechanisms that sort out potential opportunities, to assessing the management qualities, business models, legal issues, and even intangibles of target companies. Structured around a number of carefully crafted questions that venture capitalists often ask when performing due diligence, this book puts you in the position of a VC conducting due diligence on a particular company.
In-depth discussions of these questions and their possible answers pull together opinions from many of the major players in today's venture capital industry, including...
- Richard Testa of Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault
- Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
- John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
- Craig Johnson of the Venture Law Group
- Don Valentine of Sequoia Capital
- Keving Fong of the Mayfield Fund
An essential guide for anyone involved in venture capital investing, Venture Capital Due Diligence helps you uncover potential problems, while showing you where to look and what to look for when conducting VC due diligence.