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Startup Due Diligence: What it Is & Why it Matters

Hubspot

Did you know that a disagreement between founders can lead to an entire startup business failing? In fact, 65% of startups fail due to founder conflict (Noam Wasserman, author of The Founder's Dilemmas ). Table of Contents What is startup due diligence?

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4 Proven Marketing Strategies For Selling A Product

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As Gabriel Weinberg, the founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo, put it in the book he co-authored with Justin Mares, “Traction” : “Almost every failed startup has a product. What failed startups don’t have are enough customers.”. So the question is this: How can you get your product in front of your potential customers?

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9 Things Founders Should Know About Getting Acquired with Brett Goldstein, Former M&A at Google

SaaStr

It’s a common dream for founders to hope their startup be acquired one day, but what is a company, like Google, really looking for in their acquisitions? First, there are three types of acquisition deals: Talent — To get the expertise on your team and more firepower. Focus on companies with strong M&A functions.

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Business Startup Advice – Plan Like You’re Going to Fail.

SalesBlog!

I started a business with a forty thousand dollar loan from a friend of mine. The business meteorically grew to over one million in sales per month within a year. We tried to slow things down to only find that there is no “slow” with business. My business startup was a disaster. But alas it failed.

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The Secrets to Scaling Zapier to 500 Employees from Employees Themselves with Wade Foster, Co-founder & CEO at Zapier (Podcast 510 and Video)

SaaStr

Zapier grew from a small SaaS startup to a company with over 500 employees over a decade. Here’s the advice they had to offer on scaling your SaaS company. Here’s the advice they had to offer on scaling your SaaS company. Your systems don’t need to be 100%. Stephanie #16: Startups are hard enough.

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How to avoid the martech black hole and ride the crest of change

Martech

We see labor contraction at startups and public companies across multiple industries as part of a broader strategy to brace for what many believe to be the start of a long-term economic downturn. If what’s past is prologue, marketing budgets will likely contract further in the coming year, despite a new survey saying 70% of U.S.

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

Audience Member 1: What’s been your biggest lesson from SaaStr the last two days? They were aware of it, but startups that I work with closely or invested in, if they got all the way to 25 million with 75% NRR, I would tell them to quit today. And he did a whole one hour on his mistakes going multi-product into their IPO.