Vetting Your VC? 5 Questions All Entrepreneurs Should Ask Of A Prospective Investor

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Due diligence in startups is a two-way street – the investor is looking to understand the entrepreneur and the entrepreneur is looking to understand the investor. This is an article focused on the latter, specifically the context and the questions that all entrepreneurs should be asking. The caveat is the world is not flat and where there is less optionality for getting capital, we acknowledge the reality that startups have to compromise more. 0) Their Online Footprint, Starting With Website – This is not really a question to ask but an action item to do before anything. We recommend all…...

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Amit Garg I have been in Silicon Valley for 20 years -- at Samsung NEXT Ventures, running my own startup (as of May 2019 a series D that has raised $120M and valued at $450M), at Norwest Ventures, and doing product and analytics at Google. My academic training is BS in computer science and MS in biomedical informatics, both from Stanford, and MBA from Harvard. I speak natively 3 languages, live carbon-neutral, am a 70.3 Ironman finisher, and have built a hospital in rural India serving 100,000 people.