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THE HONEST NO

Four things that actually rule a company out, listed plainly

Every page of this kind explains who qualifies and leaves you to work out whether that is you. This is the other list. If one of these describes your company, you can close the tab now.

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WHAT GENUINELY DISQUALIFIES

The four real ones

  • Almost no operating history. A company under a year or two old has not yet produced a record worth reviewing.
  • Nothing written down. A business run entirely on phone calls and memory, with no systems holding a trail, has little to license.
  • No freedom to license. If every piece of material is encumbered and nothing can be carved out, there is no workable scope.
  • A record destroyed rather than fragmented. Migrations are survivable; genuinely deleting everything is not.

THE FASTEST WAY TO A NO

Two minutes to be told you do not qualify

  1. 01

    Six questions

    What the company runs on and for how long. That alone rules most non-starters out.

  2. 02

    A straight answer

    If there is nothing here, a Managing Partner will say so in the first conversation rather than later.

  3. 03

    Only then a review

    If there is something, we look at the record before pricing it. We do not pay for what we have not seen.

  4. 04

    Papered and paid

    Typically $100K to $2M, agreed within a week, paid Net 30 to 60 after approval and anonymization.

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WHAT DOES NOT DISQUALIFY

Four things people wrongly assume rule them out

These come up constantly and almost none of them matter. If you were about to rule yourself out for one of them, do not.

Being small

History matters more than headcount or revenue. Small long-running firms routinely outprice larger newer ones.

Being low-tech

Mail, files and spreadsheets are the working record. No data team or warehouse is required or expected.

Being messy

Tidiness is one of the weakest factors. Free-text mess often carries more reasoning than a structured system.

Confidentiality obligations

They narrow scope rather than ending it. Internal method is frequently unencumbered.

WHO TELLS YOU NO

The people on the first call are the principals

“Built Simplicity Solar to $35M in three years and sold it. He leads diligence on every asset we underwrite.”
Ryan LockPartner
“Nearly three years at McKinsey, then bought a company outright and scaled it to $50M.”
Zak KuzbariPartner

SPEAK WITH A MANAGING PARTNER

Get ruled out in two minutes, or find out you were wrong

Six questions and a straight answer. Nothing you tell us leaves Polyshares.

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