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

Justin J. Camp

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471126500 ISBN 13: 9780471126508

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2002

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 today's top VCs, including John Doerr, Don Valentine, Kevin Fong, and Ann Winblad.

Product Description:

Venture Capital Due Diligence 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.

From the Back Cover:

Performing Venture Capital Due Diligence the Right Way

Venture Capital Due Diligence provides a clear and completeexplanation of the venture capital (VC) due diligence process andshows you how to use it to assess investment opportunities, makesmart investment decisions, and increase the return on your overallventure capital portfolio.

This comprehensive guide offers a full explanation of the VC duediligence process, from using screening mechanisms that sort outpotential opportunities, to assessing the management qualities, business models, legal issues, and even intangibles of targetcompanies. Structured around a number of carefully craftedquestions that venture capitalists often ask when performing duediligence, this book puts you-the reader-in the position of a VCconducting due diligence on a particular company.

In-depth discussions of these questions and their possible answerspull together opinions from many of the major players in today'sventure 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 propermethods of performing VC due diligence and making VC investmentdecisions.

An essential guide for anyone involved in venture capitalinvesting, Venture Capital Due Diligence helps you uncoverpotential problems, while showing you where to look and what tolook for when conducting VC due diligence.