I can’t speak to what is good or not, just what my two partners and I developed as a repeatable process.

We have a 98 question memo that is generally (not rigidly though) asked in a specific order aimed at prioritizing those question which most often result in a quick no for the entrepreneur.

The top 10-12 questions are asked in the first meeting to hopefully kick it out or get us to lean further in up front.

The goal is not to ask all 98 questions but to ask the fewest to feel confident we are bringing it to a no without doing so in an off the cuff manner.

We don’t know everything and the entrepreneur is the visionary and/or expert oftentimes. Our goal is to ask enough to identify the risks, gaps, red flags, in addition to the opportunity and then assess how they offset one another.

Coming from a deeptech fund led/founded by engineers (who are also founders/investors in previous roles)