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Diligence isn't a mystery — it's a fixed set of questions a lead's counsel, an acquirer's deal team, or an underwriter runs, in a predictable order, before money moves. These guides lay out that set with worked examples and the real dilution math, so you close your gaps before the other side finds them for you.
The dilution figures below are computed by the same deterministic engine that runs the paid report and the free on-page estimate — so the guides and your report can't disagree. Diligence practice follows public US-market sources (YC, NVCA model docs, Cooley GO); confirm anything jurisdiction-specific with your own counsel.
The full seven-category kill-list — cap table, corporate hygiene, IP, related-party, revenue, key-person, compliance — with what each question is really testing and the document that clears it.
The exact folder tree to build before a room goes live — generalized from an exchange-listing-grade data room, trimmed to what each stage needs, with the file names to use.
The findings that don't get negotiated — they end the deal or re-price it hard: the prior-employer IP claim, the unmodeled SAFE, the off-ledger equity promise — ranked by how much each costs you.
A week-by-week plan to walk into a live room already clean — what to fix 8 weeks out, 4 weeks out, and in the final sprint, so nothing surfaces mid-deal.
Why a "standard" pool refresh quietly moves several points of ownership off you before the new investor is diluted at all — with the exact math and an on-page calculator.
How a post-money SAFE actually converts at a priced round — cap price vs discount price vs round price, MFN, and stacking — with a worked three-SAFE example and a calculator.
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