A Due Diligence Fast-Track for Busy Entrepreneurs

Jason Carter
BuildGroup
Published in
3 min readSep 4, 2019

There are a lot of ways to build a company. And this makes it hard for entrepreneurs to find investment partners that align with the way they want to build it.

Plus it takes valuable time away from actually building the company.

But if you’re committed to finding new ways to unlock the full capacity of your people and processes, in a way that helps bring the best version of your vision to life, then you might have some things in common with the team at BuildGroup.

And probably a few things more.

Things like:

— Data-Matters is your company motto.

Your summer beach book bag may have included, Zero to One, Start with Why and the Q3 operations deck.

— You think it’s a problem if there’s not one to solve.

— Deep meaning and purpose is assigned to every person on the team.

— There’s a culture that inspires every person to dig deeper.

— Advanced technology is used to find jaggy process boulders that stop teams in their tracks.

— There’s an automated process that grinds them down into skipping rocks.

If some of these examples click, then you’ll like the path BuildGroup and their partners are headed down.

On the other hand, since there’s no right or wrong way to get there, it’s up to each company to chose a path that works best for them.

With that, here are a few indicators to see if the direction BuildGroup and its partners are going might not align with the way you want to get there.

For example:

— Data-schmata is the company motto.

— Your favorite book is, Transformation Means Double Down.

— You think it’s a problem if the company chef is out sick.

— The last subscription initiative involved renewing Robb Report and W.

— Recent investments to increase market share comprised of hiring more reps and ordering stronger coffee.

— You’re consumed by the idea of Maximum Capacity. Only it’s a prison break movie you’re writing for Jean-Claude Van Damme.

— The pitch deck has a Venn diagram where each strategic concept overlaps a picture of your car peeling out of the parking lot.

“Alexa, what is Jean-Claude Van Damme’s address?”

So, if this is the path you’re on w̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶d̶o̶ ̶I̶ ̶s̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶r̶e̶s̶u̶m̶e̶?̶ and it’s working, that’s great.

Even so, it couldn’t hurt to ping BuildGroup and talk shop. It’s likely you both have new ideas that could help every entrepreneur’s path get better.

buildgroup.com

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