Kundra: Shared Slack Channels Accelerate Post-Acquisition Transitions Better Than Email
Varun Kundra · Startup Acquisition Stories with Varun Kundra, Co-Founder of Beam Commerce · Apr 25, 2023 · at 12:02
Varun Kundra shares operational handover advice for founders selling their software businesses.
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“One thing that I did this time and I would recommend is create like a Slack channel between You and your team and the buyer and their team. So then like your customer support person can talk to their customer support people. You can, you know, the product person can talk to their product person. That way it's not like everyone's going through you. Like I have like a hundred email thread from before the Slack channel about like all the different questions and things. So it just, it's, I think it's a better way to manage your time and make the transition process cleaner if you have like both teams being able to talk to each other.”
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