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Description: Venture Capital Due Diligence by Justin J. Camp 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 considering investing in an attempt to estimate the ROI of this decision. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 considering investing in an attempt to estimate the ROI of this decision. 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. 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. The book provides readers with a clear and complete understanding of the due diligence process and formalizes the process for the VC community. The book is structured around key criteria presented in the form of questions. Each question is followed by in-depth explanations and analyses that incorporate the best practices of todays top VCs, including John Doerr, Don Valentine, Kevin Fong, and Ann Winblad. Back Cover Performing Venture Capital Due Diligence the Right Way Venture Capital Due Diligence provides a clear and complete explanation of the venture capital (VC) due diligence process and shows you how to use it to assess investment opportunities, make smart investment decisions, and increase the return on your overall venture capital portfolio. This comprehensive guide offers a full explanation of the VC 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-the reader-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 todays 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 * Kevin Fong of the Mayfield Fund . . . and many others who are qualified to comment on the proper methods of performing VC due diligence and making VC investment decisions. 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. Flap Venture Capital Due Diligence "The process of making investment decisions encompasses the heart and soul of venture capital." –Standish H. O’Grady Senior Managing Director, Granite Ventures Venture capitalists and other types of venture investors work very hard to uncover every critical aspect of a company that they consider an investment opportunity. This informing process has come to be called "venture capital due diligence." Venture Capital Due Diligence: A Guide to Making Smart Investment Choices and Increasing Your Portfolio Returns provides you with a clear and complete explanation of the venture capital (VC) due diligence process and shows you how to use this process to properly assess investment opportunities, make smart investment decisions, and increase the return on your overall venture capital portfolio. Straight from the world’s most successful venture capitalists, the advice in this book will show you how to assess the quality of a deal by using proven screening mechanisms, and will familiarize you with the methods for gauging the compatibility of a given opportunity with your investment strategy and portfolio. You’ll also learn how to perform VC due diligence on other aspects of a company, including management, business model, product, and legal issues, as well as the intangibles of a company, such as focus, momentum, and buzz. Rounding out the process of VC due diligence, this valuable resource shows you how to analyze financial statements–both historical and pro forma–handle ownership issues, and perform the important function of valuation. Venture Capital Due Diligence is structured around a number of carefully crafted questions that venture capitalists often ask when performing due diligence–questions that are logically organized throughout the book in the way venture capitalists usually address them. Each question puts you–the reader–in the position of a venture capitalist conducting due diligence on a particular company, so that you may gain a thorough understanding of how venture capitalists realistically perform this type of important function. Discussion of these questions and their possible answers allows you to explore the variety of different avenues available during each step of the VC due diligence process. 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. This unique, practical resource clearly outlines the VC due diligence process and shows you how to use it to make informed, accurate, and profitable investment decisions. Author Biography JUSTIN J. CAMP is a founder and general partner of Camp Ventures , a Silicon Valley-based seed-stage venture capital firm. Formerly, he was a corporate attorney with the Wall Street law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. 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 The Wharton School, where he created an Early-Stage Venture Capital Due Diligence Framework. This framework has been used in two of Whartons graduate-level MBA courses and constitutes the basis for this book. Table of Contents Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Screening Due Diligence 5 Chapter 2 Management Due Diligence 23 Chapter 3 Business Opportunity Due Diligence 65 Chapter 4 Due Diligence on Intangibles 97 Chapter 5 Legal Due Diligence 101 Chapter 6 Financial Due Diligence 199 Epilogue 225 Notes 227 Index 247 Long Description Performing Venture Capital Due Diligence the Right Way Venture Capital Due Diligence provides a clear and complete explanation of the venture capital (VC) due diligence process and shows you how to use it to assess investment opportunities, make smart investment decisions, and increase the return on your overall venture capital portfolio. This comprehensive guide offers a full explanation of the VC 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-the reader-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 todays 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 Kevin Fong of the Mayfield Fund . . . and many others who are qualified to comment on the proper methods of performing VC due diligence and making VC investment decisions. 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. Feature Tools, checklists, and tip sheets are enhanced by the finance worlds most successful venture capitalists. Structured around carefully selected criteria presented in the form of questions that venture capitalists must ask during the due diligence process. Customizable tools accommodate individual approaches. Details ISBN0471126500 Author Justin J. Camp Short Title VENTURE CAPITAL DUE DILIGENCE Language English ISBN-10 0471126500 ISBN-13 9780471126508 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2002 Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc Subtitle A Guide to Making Smart Investment Choices and Increasing Your Portfolio Returns Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Edition 1st Illustrations black & white illustrations Series Wiley Finance DOI 10.1604/9780471126508 Series Number 102 UK Release Date 2002-03-04 AU Release Date 2002-02-07 NZ Release Date 2002-02-07 Pages 272 Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc Publication Date 2002-03-04 DEWEY 332.632 Audience Undergraduate US Release Date 2002-03-04 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:1291148;

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