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Investor Insights
Field notes from technical due diligence, for people who invest in software companies.
Every few weeks we write to the investors we work with about what we have seen inside software companies recently: the claims that held up, the ones that did not, and the questions that would have surfaced the difference earlier. Reading it requires no code.
Written by the team behind 190+ technical due diligences for investors across Europe.
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Four short parts, written to be read between two meetings
Three things we saw
Findings from recent technical due diligences, with the company names removed and the lesson kept.
Three questions for your next board meeting
Each finding turned into something you can ask a founder or CTO without reading a line of code.
A word from Andreas
Our CEO Andreas Creten on whatever is on his desk that month, from the price of a GPU to why roadmaps drift.
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From the latest issue
Claims and artefacts
Issue ten looked at what happens when the sentence on the slide and the thing it describes quietly part company. Three findings from this summer, names removed.
A speed claim can be honest and still miss most of the journey.
Response times in thousandths of a second, measured only inside the company's own software. The customer's trip to it and back was never timed.
Process words can describe their own absence.
“Agile” meant the owner deciding in conversation what got built next. Nothing reviewed a change before customers saw it.
The roadmap in the board pack and the work that happened are two different documents.
A plan approved, an urgent request landing on top of it inside the week, and nobody pricing the switch.
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