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Crossroad

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“When the due diligence process fails to account for a holistic set of data, then the leaders are incapable of having a holistic sense of how successful the deal may be, and what chance of success the new entity may have.”

“Mossfon subscribed to a Google-like paid search service called World-Check to help identify PEPs ["politically exposed person"] and criminals. It also, not for the first time, sent a letter to its professional clients requesting that they conduct a customer review. There was little follow-up. It was a question of incentives. When scandals sporadically came to light, they always seemed to resolve themselves without undue harm to the firm. Meanwhile, business was booming. In 2005, the firm tripled the number of shell companies it created on behalf of banks. By the end of the year, Mossfon had more than seventy thousand active companies. To do the necessary due diligence on all of them would have been prohibitively expensive, and sometimes impossible. In a business predicated on secrecy, no one wanted to produce the information.”

“When seeking startup funding, having a well thought out investor data room with financial forecasts, cap tables, and legal essentials streamlines due diligence and signals operational maturity. It's like curating a gallery where each exhibit tells a compelling story, drawing investors in to see your startup masterpiece.”