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Venture Capital Due Diligence: A Guide to Making Smart Investment Choices and Increasing Your Portfolio Returns (Hardcover)
by Justin J. Camp
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An essential guide for anyone involved in venture capital investing - it helps you uncover potential problems, while showing you where to look and what to look for when conducting VC due diligence. |
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Author: Justin J. Camp
Publisher: Wiley
Pub. in: January, 2002
ISBN: 0471126500
Pages: 258
Measurements: 8.5 x 7.1 x 1 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00794
Other information: 1st edition
ISBN-13: 978-0471126508
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"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.
- From the publisher
Target readers:
Venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and investment bankers
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Justin J. Camp is a founder and general partner of Camp Ventures (www.campventures.com), 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 Wharton's graduate-level MBA courses and constitutes the basis for this book.
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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.
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-31 00:00>
As a new entrant to the field of venture capital, I found this book extremely helpful. Anyone hoping to become a VC should definitely take a look. |
Carlos N. Velez (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-31 00:00>
I think Mr. Camp does a nice job of organizing the key due diligence questions into logical groups (legal, financial, etc.) Indeed, I think a good exercise would be to turn the questions in the book into a template for use during due diligence. I disagree with the earlier comments that there is little value because of his use of secondary sources. I think the opposite... a well-referenced book is always valued. In fact, I'll be looking into some of the references myself!
Overall, nicely done. |
A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-31 00:00>
This book gives a good survey on the due diligence process and attempts to teach the reader other important aspects of venture capital by connecting it to the due diligence process. However, the author comes up short in addressing some of the more important subject areas.
Overall it is a pretty good book but you will need to by a few more if you want a really good understanding of the entire process. "The Startup Company Bible for Entrepreneurs" is the best book I've come across on the topic of venture capital and it is almost three times the size of this one and contains a lot more material and topics. This book would definately fill in the gaps in "Venture Capital Due Diligence." You might want to get both since there aren't too many good books on the topic. |
Robert Jacobson (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-31 00:00>
For me as a professional consultant to startups and early-stage companies -- and a former successful CEO - this book to be an excellent resource. I can readily share it with clients because although it's thorough and candid, it's not off-putting with technical jargon. It speaks to you, the reader, directly.
If you're a Founder or CEO of a young company, this book will become your peephole into the hearts and minds of your current and prospective investors.
This book delivers. |
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