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Demystifying Due Diligence: An Insider’s Guide to this Important Process

Diamond Consultants

Strategic due diligence. And in the case of due diligence, it’s a process that gets your business where you want it to be. And since tips on air travel and doctor’s visits are beyond the scope of this publication, we’ll focus on what I do know—specifically, strategic due diligence. Going to the doctor.

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Taking Due Diligence Beyond Exploration: 6 Important Considerations

Diamond Consultants

When the thought of making a move “gets real,” there’s another level of due diligence that advisors should embark upon. Most advisors consider the process of due diligence to be a disruptive and cumbersome ritual of “meet and greet.” So, what’s “strategic due diligence”? So, what are you to do?

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Be the Startup I Want to Fund

This is going to be BIG.

I'm not a publisher, so I have to rely on my network to do due diligence. It costs nearly know money to blanket your industry with the buzz that you're onto something--either through 1:1 meetings, blogging, or just being *the* industry expert in the space. Consider the following mental exercise. oh, I dunno. If not, why not?

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Keeping It Simple

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

The same was true with blogging and tweeting a decade earlier. I met Mena Trott at a Nick Denton party in NYC in 2003 and she explained blogging to me. That led me to Twitter a few years later when I saw that most people would prefer to write a text message to the world over a long-form blog post. That was all it took for me.

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Tips on Approaching a VC

This is going to be BIG.

Are you blogging really insightful takes on your industry? Try to guess who my first due diligence call is for your company and get to them first before I bastardize your pitch to them. If you were leaders in your space, you'd know them. 5) Aim for me to hear about you before you pitch. Submitting content to publications I read?

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Kraken Is the Latest Crypto Exchange to Face SEC Charges. Are Any U.S. Platforms Safe?

The Motley Fool

This is incorrect as a matter of law, false as a matter of fact, and disastrous as a matter of policy," the exchange wrote in a blog post. The complaint against Kraken alleges no fraud, no market manipulation, no customer losses due to hacking or compromised security, and no breaches of fiduciary duty," says the exchange.

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How can I be sure my financial advisor isn’t going to steal my money?

Sara Grillo

” I’m going to answer that question in this blog about financial advisors stealing money and how to protect yourself. But here are some resources you may want to grab before you read the blog. I wrote a bunch of consumer advocacy blogs here to protect people from all the BS. It is called advice-only planning.