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A closer look at the 6 things to pre-empt 90% of Due Diligence

The Angel VC

Since last week's post about 6-7 things to pre-empt 90% of Due Diligence was liked/shared/retweeted quite a bit, I'd like to follow up with some additional details on what exactly SaaS Series A/B investors will look for when you supply them with the data and material that I've mentioned. How has your ARPA developed?

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8 Customer Discovery Questions to Validate Product Market Fit for Your Startup

Tom Tunguz

Customer knowledge, both qualitative and quantitative, informed product development, and that research became a key part of AdSense’s success. A few years later when I joined Redpoint, I learned that venture capitalists perform similar customer research during diligence.

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Is Your Product Analytics Broken? How to Actually Act on the Data You Collect

User Pilot

How to start acting on product analytics the right way? Why product analytics fails The ongoing process of tracking analytics is riddled with errors and roadblocks that prevent teams from making informed decisions. It also draws out the process by requiring time-consuming agreement on needs and strict protocols, like QA reviews.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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Product Market Fit: Finding Your Product’s Place in the Market

ProfitWell

Ari Wells is the VP of Product Marketing at cloud service mogul Akamai. He joined us on stage at Recur 2018 to talk about how their team takes a product from concept to launch. You hear about product market fit a lot these days, and with good reason. What is Product Market Fit?

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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

You’ve got the equivalent of AdSense, which is a Google product for YouTube, and they’ll serve up ads and you’ll generate revenue, you’ll take that check home every month. And when you’re doing the due diligence, there’s only so many assets within a YouTube channel you need to assess.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I mean, and I may at the risk of stating at times of blinding lava, they’re very … They’re really care a lot about what is the market opportunity you’re going after, right? You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.