diligence

Of course, they still need to do their due diligence, so it's going to take some time.

If the companies act in good faith with due diligence, what do they have to lose?

As a consumer, you need to do your due diligence and shop around.

But if you fudge the numbers in a due diligence audit, you're guilty of securities fraud and can go to jail for that.

This is just Google's form of semi-automatic due diligence.

Facebook should give a bug bounty here, due to their lack of due diligence in following up with the initial responses.

Although it's a fun read, it's a classic example of diving into coding without giving a project it's due diligence.

It probably turned up during due diligence that they had some "cleanup" to take care of in order to not be lying when they made that representation.

And if they don't do due diligence, fuck them... what kind of moron trusts the fucking NSA?As for counter-hacking, sooner or later the law is going to have to address it.

You need to examine the legal and regulatory environment in which you'll be operating as the very first step of your due diligence.

Leo Apotheker made $25 million on his way out the door from HP, after vaporizing over $6 billion in buying a fraudulent company and doing virtually no due diligence.

On the front-end, the decision making process for purchasing enterprise software is driven by checklists and "due diligence" procedures that are horrible at accounting for software quality.

But if an inventor wants a national industrial policy to be made in his favor that will last for as much as 20 years, it doesn't seem per se unreasonable for society to require him to do some due diligence first.

Unless you're managing other people's money, or have a 7-figure+ portfolio, I expect the time taken to do the due diligence necessary to consistently beat the market - if indeed such a thing is possible - would end up paying a lower hourly rate than you could earn doing other, more reliable, less zero-sum things.

Not because of the legal costs, but because:- it's disruptive to the business - your whole life becomes dealing with due diligence, not to mention the stress level- it gives the acquirer the chance to rethink their decision or consider another route- business conditions could change - your biggest competitor goes up for sale at a bargain basement priceSo, in the end, you're not optimizing for cost, and prepping for DD is definitely not worth doing pre-product or at the expense of building your business.