DealDoctor® Due Diligence Manual

Description

The DealDoctor® Due Diligence Manual — Beating the Odds for Investors, Acquirers, and Their Advisors adds a governance evaluation layer on top of traditional financial, legal, and technical diligence. Traditional DD evaluates artifacts, not operations — it checks whether documents exist, not whether the organization actually works. The stakes: roughly 75% of venture-backed companies fail to return capital, and 70–90% of acquisitions miss their value targets. Those failures trace to a Governance Reality Gap that traditional diligence structurally cannot see.

Inside the manual

• The four CARMA™ evaluation lenses — the Quad C Mindset (people), the AAA Standard (organizational health), the Five Pillars (infrastructure), and the 5Cs (contracts & obligations).
• The Acquisition Multiplier and stage-calibrated evaluation (seed → growth → PE).
• A structured investment-decision scoring methodology and post-investment governance monitoring.
• A practical toolkit: document-request lists, interview guides, red-flag indicators, and Seller/Buyer Readiness Scorecards.

Who it is for: Angel, VC, PE, and strategic investors; corp dev and PE operating partners; and their advisors — law firms, auditors, and advisers. Grounded in the IIA Three Lines Model and the DOJ’s three compliance-program questions: well designed, applied in good faith, and works in practice.