Venture Capital Due Diligence: A Guide to Making Smart Investment Choices and Increasing Your Portfolio Returns

These discussions pull together the opinions of many of the major players in today's venture capital community, including: * John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers * Don Valentine of Sequoia Capital * Kevin Fong of the Mayfield Fund Venture Capital Due Diligence provides a rigorous VC due diligence framework along with a set of tools, techniques, tip sheets, and checklists that can be customized to fit your personal investment criteria or the practice of your firm. Rounding out the process of VC due diligence, this valu

This book is the only guide to provide investors with a rigorous due diligence framework that can be customized to fit the practice of the firm. Each question is followed by in-depth explanations and analyses that incorporate the best practices of today's top VCs, including John Doerr, Don Valentine, Kevin Fong, and Ann Winblad.. The state of the market, management expertise within the firm, legal concerns, location, and environmental issues are just a few of the factors investors include in their due diligence analyses. The first book to offer a comprehensive framework for conducting the venture capital due diligence process Venture capitalists and other professional investors use due diligence to uncover all of the critical aspects of a company in which they are conside

CAMP is a founder and general partner of Camp Ventures (campventures), a Silicon Valley-based seed-stage venture capital firm. He graduated with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a BA in economics and political science, and received his JD degree (also with honors) from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. . While working on his law degree, Mr. Camp spent a year studying venture capital and entrepreneurship at Th

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