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Should We Do This Deal? (opens the original)
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A good company and a good deal for your fund are not the same thing. You can find a startup with real customers, clean numbers, and a sharp team, and still be about to make a bad investment. The company can be excellent and the fit can be wrong. Most of the diligence process never asks that second question directly, so it quietly gets answered by momentum instead. The deck is good, the meeting went well, the partner across the table is enthusiastic, and somehow that becomes conviction.This is a
Show Me The Numbers: Some Startup Numbers Kill a Deal. Most Don't. (opens the original)
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A walk-in clinic doesn’t run every test in the book on every patient. The nurse checks a handful of vital signs first. Pulse, blood pressure, temperature, oxygen. Four numbers, and they already tell you whether you’re looking at a cold or a heart attack. The full panel comes later, and only if the vitals say it should.The numbers on a startup work the same way. You could ask for a hundred metrics. If you ask for all of them, you’ll drown, and worse, you’ll start treating a weak onboarding rate a
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