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      <title><![CDATA[The Shelf Life of Private Company Data (And Why Most of What You're Paying For Is Already Wrong)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Private company databases advertise millions of profiles. But how much of that data is actually current? We dug into the freshness problem and found that the majority of paid data decays within 6 months of collection.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>Vlad Shostak</author>
      <category>Gotchas</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Surprising Reason 68% of Winning Bidders Already Knew the Target's Financials Before the IOI]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[New data reveals that the majority of successful acquirers had built financial profiles of their targets months before the formal process began. Why pre-process intelligence is becoming the defining edge in private M&A.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>Vlad Shostak</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Top-Decile PE Firms Do in Their First 48 Hours on a Target (That Everyone Else Takes 2 Weeks to Finish)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The specific research workflows that separate top-performing private equity deal teams from the rest. Speed, signal hierarchy, and the prepared first meeting advantage.]]></description>
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      <author>Vlad Shostak</author>
      <category>Winners & Losers</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Estimate Any Private Company's Revenue in Under 5 Minutes (Without a $40K Subscription)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A step-by-step playbook for PE associates and deal professionals to triangulate private company revenue using free public data. No enterprise subscription required.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>Vlad Shostak</author>
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      <category>Revenue Estimation</category>
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