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Return on Diligence

Mar 6, 2024

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11 min read

Return on Diligence

How a 4% investment in due diligence could yield a 100% increase in returns

Market Snapshot📸

Feb 28, 2024

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10 min read

Market Snapshot📸

Pre-seed and seed market highlights from the latest Pitchbook and Carta reports

Startup Pie🥧

Feb 21, 2024

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8 min read

Startup Pie🥧

6 reasons early-stage investors care about startup cap tables

Motivation

Feb 14, 2024

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8 min read

Motivation

3 reasons why startup investors seek to understand founder motivation

Needy

Feb 7, 2024

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9 min read

Needy

Why human needs drive all business

Cultured

Jan 31, 2024

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9 min read

Cultured

6 ways culture shapes due diligence

Startup or Lifestyle Business?

Jan 24, 2024

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10 min read

Startup or Lifestyle Business?

Why startups ≠ lifestyle businesses + 4 diligence topics to consider

Why is that the Problem?

Jan 17, 2024

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9 min read

Why is that the Problem?

A simple tool inspired by your favorite 3-year-old for deeply understanding a problem

What's your Problem?

Jan 10, 2024

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10 min read

What's your Problem?

Why the problem is so important + a simple 3-step tool to make understanding it easy

Due Diligence: A Fascinating Opportunity

Jan 3, 2024

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7 min read

Due Diligence: A Fascinating Opportunity

Revisiting the PitchFact origin story and highlighting our focus for 2024

Kettle Vapor: 4 Lessons I Learned in 2023

Dec 13, 2023

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10 min read

Kettle Vapor: 4 Lessons I Learned in 2023

Revisting what really matters

People, Process, Technology

Dec 6, 2023

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6 min read

People, Process, Technology

How a solid process and team drive the value of tech, not the other way around

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