Free field guide
Technical Excellence for Venture Studios
A field guide to building ventures that survive diligence.
Most ventures find out how fragile they are when an investor, an enterprise customer or a regulator starts asking questions. By then the capital has been spent.
This guide is for studio leaders, portfolio CTOs and the corporate and government teams that build companies rather than buy them. It is for the ones who would rather find out first.
One argument and three tools.
The minimum standard
One page. What every venture must have before it moves beyond prototype.
The venture technical scorecard
Ten areas, four levels each. Score one venture in an hour, or a portfolio in a week.
The first 90 days
How to put both in place without building a bureaucracy.
Every area scores from exposed to diligence-ready.
- Level 1
Exposed
The risk is unknown or unmanaged.
- Level 2
Foundational
The basics exist, but inconsistently.
- Level 3
Managed
A standard is set, enforced and measured.
- Level 4
Diligence-ready
It is evidenced, current and could go to an investor tomorrow.
I have seen it from several sides of the table.
As Chief Technology Officer at Rain, I led the technology due diligence and strategy preparation for a $110M Series B. At Digital Assets Oasis, I built the technology platform from scratch. Today I am embedded CTO in a venture studio in Riyadh.
The ventures differ. The weaknesses repeat. This guide is the standard I wish every one of them had started with.
Want an independent view of your portfolio?
I can score your ventures against this framework with you and set out what to fix first.
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