Saini: Used an annotated Stripe export and software inventory for due diligence
Sukh (Paul) Saini · How to Prime Your Business For a Seamless Acquisition with Sukhpal Saini · Jan 29, 2025 · at 10:47
Sukhpal Saini, founder of Reetail, discusses his process of preparing due diligence materials for the buyer during the sale of his micro-SaaS company.
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“I made a sheet of all the software I knew that I was paying for and how much it was, That sort of stuff. So that was one sheet. The other sheet was a direct stripe export from the very first payment I took in all the way to now, and all of the pricing shifts I did along the way as well, and I had it annotated. So that really helped the buyer understand, okay, this period was a time, and he did this type of sale here, and then this type of sale here, this type of sale here, because all the buyer really is looking for is like, Can I understand what has already been tried in the business and does it look legitimate enough?”
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