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.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Ch. 1 Screening Due Diligence
Ch. 2 Management Due Diligence
Ch. 3 Business Opportunity Due Diligence
Ch. 4 Due Diligence on Intangibles
Ch. 5 Legal Due Diligence
Ch. 6 Financial Due Diligence
Epilogue
Notes
Index