Confluence.VC Wisdom #1

Conducting due diligence, best ways to securely share videos, compensation data resources, and software picks for portfolio management

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⚡️ Top threads

1. Conducting due diligence on a startup

Hi all, curious how you all conduct due diligence on a startup? Is it all over email? Do you use a standard template? Do you have founders fill out a form?

Posted by: Amr Alshihabi

2. Securely sharing video content

Any ideas on the best way to securely share a video recording?

Posted by: Amr Alshihabi

  • You should check out Loom. We've started using it for everything (Clay Norris)

  • seems like they have a 4mb limit (Amr Alshihabi)

  • Paid plans are worth the $10/month price tag (Clay Norris)

  • https://www.getdebrief.com/ (Jonathan Abrams)

  • Vimeo is one of the best options. Most of the individual creators use Vimeo for sharing high-quality videos such as photographers, videographers etc. https://vimeo.com/upload (Ashish Aggarwal)

3. Shareable resources for compensation

Anyone have shareable data sources on compensation ranges for senior roles (CXO, VP of ___ ) broken out by stage?

Posted by: Spencer Calvert

4. Good resources for financial models and pitch decks

Hey everyone, I'm currently assisting with a Techstar's cohort. I was wondering if anyone had any good resources for financial models and pitch decks?

Posted by: De'Havia Stewart

5. Portfolio management software options

Can anyone recommend VC portfolio management software/platforms to get portfolio insights/easy monitoring? I've seen vestberry so far and wonder what the standard is.

Posted by: Jak Lewis

  • Shameless plug, but Visible is the best in the market (Clay Norris)

  • Quaestor is good (Jack Abramowitz)

  • +1 for visible (Halle Kaplan-Allen)

  • @Jack Abramowitz do they have an investor relations portal? (Aditi Rajagopal)

  • Yes they do as far as I understand (Jack Abramowitz)

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