Chapter 1. Keys to Successful Investing
We are all presented with numerous opportunities to invest in businesses. If you are a professional working for a venture capital or leveraged buyout firm, you are being bombarded with “opportunities” from professional money raisers known as investment bankers. If you are an “angel” investor, you are being flooded with new business plans from friends and business associates. In the introduction, we discussed how we all have biases toward everything, including what we like to invest in. Now we move from biases to gathering hard facts about the business, the industry, and the team running the business. This part of the investing process is know as due diligence.
This chapter starts the beginning of what venture ...
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