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🔥 Domain Special: 5 .coms ready for developing

Plus: 🎯 How to target successful acquisitions and conduct due diligence

December 03, 2023

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🎯 How to target successful acquisitions and conduct due diligence

Andrew Pierno, founder of XO Capital, has learned a lot about due diligence after acquiring 11 successful projects and, to date, 0 failed projects. When targeting acquisition prospects Andrew says..

We've bought stuff that already had a growth rate and just kept at it for years. […] The more we can buy mission-critical products, the better our odds are of thriving in a downturn. People churn out of unnecessary software when the economy goes south.

Andrew shared his approach to due diligence in a recent interview for Indie Hackers.

Here were our main takeaways..

Due diligence is broken into 3 buckets:

  • Financial - “what is the real cash the business receives month over month (not the stripe MRR which is very inaccurate).”

  • Tech - “where are the bodies buried. Can we maintain this. Can we continue building with it.”

  • Customers - “What are the quality of the customers. Can we speak to a few of them.”

Identifying prospects:

  • “We look a lot at churn, retention, CAC, LTV, ARPU and since we have seen a lot of deals we roughly know what's good, bad, and what's ugly.”

  • “Sometimes we're lukewarm on a product but can get it for a really good price. We can then factor in the effort it would take to make it a great product.”

For more on due diligence: https://notes.xo.capital/diligence/

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