Venture Capital Due Diligence: A Guide to Making Smart Investment Choices and Increasing Your Portfolio Returns »

JUSTIN J. CAMP is a founder and general partner of Camp Ventures (www.campventures.com), a Silicon Valley-based seed-stage venture capital firm. Formerly, he was a corporate attorney with the Wall Street law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He graduated with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a BA in economics and political science, and received his JD degree (also with honors) from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. While working on his law degree, Mr. Camp spent a year studying venture capital and entrepreneurship at The Wharton School, where he created an Early-Stage Venture Capital Due Diligence Framework. This framework has been used in two of Wharton's graduate-level MBA courses and constitutes the basis for this book.

Due diligence is the process by which venture capitalists assess a company. Camp, a lawyer and the founder of a venture capitalist firm, has created a clearly organized framework that considers the company's management, business model, and product. A lengthy section lists and explains legal issues. How financial statements are read and their role is also described. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Due diligence is the process by which venture capitalists assess a company. Camp, a lawyer and the founder of a venture capitalist firm, has created a clearly organized framework that considers the company's management, business model, and product. A lengthy section lists and explains legal issues. How financial statements are read and their role is also described. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)