Learning Path 12
Risk and Due Diligence
How to verify before committing, and how to see the quiet failures before they happen.
- Intermediate
- ~12h estimated
- 12 modules
- 76 topics
Why this path matters
Businesses rarely die loudly. They die from concentration, fraud, and unexamined dependencies.
What you will understand
- Verify before you commit — money, time, or reputation.
- The failures nobody sees coming — until they do.
Modules in this path
Diligence Before You Start · Due Diligence
- Due Diligence Before Starting
- Inventory Due Diligence
- Supplier Due Diligence
- Acquisition Due Diligence
- Investor Due Diligence
- Partnership Due Diligence
- Market Due Diligence
Diligence by Domain · Due Diligence
- Customer Due Diligence
- Financial Due Diligence
- Legal Due Diligence
- Operational Due Diligence
- Reputation Due Diligence
- Competitor Due Diligence
- Founder Due Diligence
People and Paper · Due Diligence
- Intellectual Property Due Diligence
- Contract Due Diligence
- Debt Due Diligence
- Tax Due Diligence
- Hidden Liabilities
- Churn Analysis
- Revenue Verification
Fraud and Fakes · Due Diligence
- Spotting Fake Reviews
- Spotting Fake Revenue
- Supplier Fraud
- Inventory Fraud
- Marketplace Account Risk
- Key-person Risk
- Regulatory Risk
Structured Audits · Due Diligence
- The What-breaks-first Audit
- The sales-drop-30-percent Audit
- The What-is-hidden Audit
- Why Good Deals Can Be Bad Businesses
- Data Room Discipline
- Quality-of-earnings Mechanics
Dependency Risks · Risk
- Key-person Risk in Operations
- Supplier Risk
- Customer Risk
- Platform Risk Exposure
- Fraud Risk
- Chargeback Exposure
Financial and Legal Exposure · Risk
Operational Threats · Risk
External Shocks · Risk
- Currency Risk
- Geopolitical Risk
- Concentration Risk
- Black Swan Events
- Continuity Planning
- Crisis Communication
Resilience Planning · Risk
- Cash Reserves
- Scenario Planning
- Stress Testing
- Recession Survival
- Knowing When to Shut Down
- Foreign Exchange Exposure
Pricing and Transferring Risk · Risk
- Interest-rate Risk Management
- Captive Insurance
- Risk Transfer versus Risk Retention
- Reinsurance and How an Exposure Gets Passed Up the Chain
- Deductibles, Retentions, and Buying the Right Amount of Cover
- Contractual Risk Transfer: Indemnities, Hold-harmless, and Additional Insureds
Deciding Under Deep Uncertainty · Risk
- Risk versus Uncertainty: Deciding When the Probabilities Do not Exist
- Choosing the Option That Survives Every Scenario, not the Likeliest One
- Power Laws, Fat Tails, and the Loss That Has No Natural Ceiling
- Correlation Breakdown and Why Hedges Fail Exactly When They Matter
- Parametric Cover and the Basis Risk You Keep
- Ruin Risk, Ergodicity, and Why the Average Outcome Is Never Yours