Venture Capital Due Diligence: A Guide to Making Smart Investment Choices and Increasing Your Portfolio Returns (Wiley Finance)

I’m new to the profession and was hoping to gain more insight into the world of venture capital. I’ve found this book to be very helpful with becoming more knowledgeable. It’s a great resource book and has helped me with the ins and outs on being successful in leading a company.

I enjoyed this book very much. Books on strategic planning, business planning, and due diligence interest me a lot. When I spotted this book at a B&N in Manhattan a month ago I swiped it up off the shelf in a heart beat. It didn't take me long to read it. But I was very disappointed that a new chapter inserted in front of Chapter 1 was not included.It would have been a great book if that new chapter had included an outline of the topics and the questions presented and discussed. Without such an outline, the reader has to wade through the entire book to understand what it is really about. Not good! To make the book more valuable to me I have taken the time to make such an outline for my personal use. It came to 8 pages in MS Word outline mode.This book is a great resource. But I think it is overpriced. It retails for $60 at a bricks-and-mortar store, and $38 at Amazon. But maybe it is worth it? It certainly should be interesting to a wide variety of audiences.Are you an entrepreneur with a start up company that you think might quality for venture capital funding? If so, you will want to study chapters 1 (screening) and 2 (management). The issues covered in these two chapters are the ones a venture capitalist will initially consider when considering whether your company is one they want to invest money in. Will your company pass the test?Are you an entrepreneur planning a start up company and in the midst of putting together a written business plan? If so, then you will want to study chapters 2 (management), 3 (business opportunity), 5 (legal), and 6 (financial). These four chapters should help you tremendously troubleshoot your business plan as you create draft after draft. It's your job to create a great company; venture capitalists like to find them.Are you a CEO or a CFO who runs a large company that grows sales through mergers and acquisitions? If so, you will enjoy the entire book. As will your subordinates who run your M&A department. Also, anyone who runs a venture capital enterprise will probably enjoy this book. But if they know what they are doing, then they probably won't learn anything new. 4 stars!

I loved reading it. It taught me so much about venture capitalists and has answered more questions than I knew to ask. Thanks for the great service too.

This is a great book if you are looking to learn more about private equity valuation method, process and real questions VC walk through Due Diligence.

Insightful book. Highly recommended for those interested in the minds of the venture capitalists. Well quoted by those well know in the VC community.

While this book is written for VCs, it's also a useful tool for PR people who are working on corporate messaging. It offers dozens of ways to extract information about a company's structure, value proposition, go-to-market strategy and risk management approaches. It occupies a permanent spot on my bookshelf. I recommend the Kindle version, which makes it easy to look up your favorite sections on any mobile device (ie when you're on the laptop on a plane or in a meeting and have your phone).

I was tremendously disappointed in this book. The cost of $35-50 is definitely a complete rip-off for what you get from the author. All you need to do is refer to pages 227-246. Those are the pages that represent the bibliography. I actually was so pissed off after reading this book that I counted them. In total the author referenced the words and work of 488 author people. There are only 223 pages of text and 6 chapters in the book. I am certain you can do the math but I'll do it for you.There are on average more than 2 references per page and over 80 per chapter. It's as though the author has never had an original thought of his own. If I wanted to hire somebody to go out and look up the work of other people I would have done that. I was expecting the author to use his own first-hand knowledge and experience in order to help educate and inform others such as myself about the process. Instead, what I got was something a high school student would do while trying to complete a report for homework. My only question is who is less ethical: the author or the publishing company that let this slide through the screening process. For all of those that gave this book 5 stars I can only guess that you don't enjoy actually reading.

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.