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Though there's a lot more that can sour a startup than employing closet drinkers, gamblers, and perverts, for venture capital firms, ferreting them out prior to offering up their cash is just part of the deal. Which keeps private investigators like Margo Evashevski in business, "armed with a Stanford business degree" and paid for by the fears of skittish VCs. What kind of fears, exactly?

That ...

a finance executive at a Silicon Valley tech company who not only fibbed about where he went to college, but had convictions for driving under the influence and selling credit card information from a bank where he once worked.

And there goes their investment. Evashevski can be hired at the relatively bargain sum of $150 per hour.