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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. How important is this product compared to other software?

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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure. What took you months to ideate, design and develop can now be copied in days or weeks thanks to these new tools. Frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Node, Angular, Ember, React etc.

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SaaStr Podcast #343 with Point Nine Capital Managing Partner Christoph Janz

SaaStr

Guru lets your team capture information instantly, wherever it surfaces, Slack, Gmail, Salesforce, Microsoft Outlook and Teams, and more, without ever leaving their workflow. What about pipeline development, sales cycles, pricing, payment terms, other changes in customer behavior or user behavior?

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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Flippa CEO Blake Hutchison about how Flippa works, as well as insights on what you should know if you’re a digital business owner looking to sell your business. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Jump to video. | Jump to transcript.

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The Five Most Critical Mistakes Founders Make When Raising Money

Hitenism

Two tweets about raising money was all it took to get 81 email responses and 53 customer development calls with founders. In the interviews, my business partner and I asked founders about their fundraising process and problems. That’s when I realized that fundraising may be startup founders’ biggest pain point.

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Social Media Marketing Consulting

Neil Patel

You could use the help of an expert if: You’re struggling to acquire or retain customers You aren’t getting the ROI you’d like from social media Your social media strategy is all over the place You or your team don’t have much social media experience. Develop a High-Performing Social Media Strategy. Here’s what they’ll do: 1.