The fundamental purpose of a due diligence checklist is to ensure that you don't miss anything important when buying a firm, or investing in one. You can see what obligations, liabilities, problematic contracts, intellectual property issues, and litigation risks you're taking on by using a due diligence checklist. For entrepreneurs, this checklist helps provide vital information proving your business to be sustainable and reliable. Here is the Due Diligence Checklist used by the Rio Grande Valley Angel Network ..read more

The Rio Grande Valley Angel Network strives to provide informative resources to assist aspiring entrepreneurs into scaling their business and future angel investors with strategic and calculated ways to invest their funds that garnish profitable returns. The following article has been carefully picked by the RGVAN team to assist in entrepreneurial or angel investing. In addition to articles and eBooks, the Seraf Compass makes various tools and checklists available for anyone to use ..read more

The Rio Grande Valley Angel Network strives to provide informative resources to assist aspiring entrepreneurs into scaling their business and future angel investors with strategic and calculated ways to invest their funds that garnish profitable returns. The following article has been carefully picked by the RGVAN team to assist in entrepreneurial or angel investing. Note: This article is part of an ongoing series on Board Directors. To learn more about their roles and responsibilities, download this free eBook today Director's Guidebook: How to be an Effective Board Director in Early Stage Co ..read more

The Rio Grande Valley Angel Network strives to provide informative resources to assist aspiring entrepreneurs into scaling their business and future angel investors with strategic and calculated ways to invest their funds that garnish profitable returns. The following article has been carefully picked by the RGVAN team to assist in entrepreneurial or angel investing. In addition to articles and eBooks, the Seraf Compass makes various tools and checklists available for anyone to use ..read more

The Rio Grande Valley Angel Network strives to provide informative resources to assist aspiring entrepreneurs into scaling their business and future angel investors with strategic and calculated ways to invest their funds that garnish profitable returns. The following article has been carefully picked by the RGVAN team to assist in entrepreneurial or angel investing. Note: This article is the last in an ongoing series on valuation and capitalization. To learn more about the financial mechanics of early stage investing, download this free eBook today Angel Investing by the Numbers: Valuation, C ..read more

What is Due Diligence? As defined by Investopedia, "Due Diligence is an investigation, audit, or review performed to confirm facts or details of a matter under consideration" (Investopedia, 2021). When a startup claims that they have conducted due diligence of their company, that means that the entrepreneur has provided financial statements since formation, detailed sales and revenues, listed all outstanding debts and notes, list of patents, and any other special terms or letters that were issued to any shareholder prior to seeking investment or merger. The following Due Diligence Checklist is ..read more

The Rio Grande Valley Angel Network strives to provide informative resources to assist aspiring entrepreneurs into scaling their business and future angel investors with strategic and calculated ways to invest their funds that garnish profitable returns. The following article has been carefully picked by the RGVAN team to assist in entrepreneurial or angel investing. Note: This article is part of Angel 101, an ongoing series for angels new to investing. To learn more about building an angel portfolio, download this free eBook today - Angel 101: A Primer for Angel Investors or purchase our book ..read more

The Rio Grande Valley Angel Network strives to provide informative resources to assist aspiring entrepreneurs into scaling their business and future angel investors with strategic and calculated ways to invest their funds that garnish profitable returns. The following article has been carefully picked by the RGVAN team to assist in entrepreneurial or angel investing. John O. Huston, Chair Emeritus, Angel Capital Association & Ohio TechAngel Funds – updated October 2017. Overview: Convertible notes can be viewed as being either a tremendous or a toxic financing vehicle depending upon their ..read more

The Rio Grande Valley Angel Network strives to provide informative resources to assist aspiring entrepreneurs into scaling their business and future angel investors with strategic and calculated ways to invest their funds that garnish profitable returns. The following article has been carefully picked by the RGVAN team to assist in entrepreneurial or angel investing. In our digital age, it is more challenging than ever to keep a secret. Nearly everything it seems ends up on social media. We know how hard our clients work to refine their business processes, operations and strategies to keep pac ..read more

The Rio Grande Valley Angel Network strives to provide informative resources to assist aspiring entrepreneurs into scaling their business and future angel investors with strategic and calculated ways to invest their funds that garnish profitable returns. The following article has been carefully picked by the RGVAN team to assist in entrepreneurial or angel investing. Compiled by John O. Huston, Chair Emeritus, Angel Capital Association & Ohio TechAngel Funds – updated October 2017. As a supplement to the Convertible Notes Advantages and Disadvantages and the Convertible Note Outcomes Map ..read more