From the course: The Data Science Playbook for Private Equity and Venture Capital

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- Throughout this course, we've discussed the data science playbook for private equity and venture capital firms. As I hope you've seen throughout the lifecycle, from deal sourcing to due diligence to the operations of portfolio companies to exiting, the data science playbook gives you a set of plans and tools to implement data science. Each time you're assessing a company, each time you've purchased a company, each time you review a portfolio company you own, and each time you consider an exit, you now have a list of data science-related opportunities. At the deal-sourcing stage, this could be analyzing the details related to the data sources that can be used. At the due diligence stage, the playbook describes how internal, external, and third-party data can be used to validate assumptions about customer value, financial forecasts, and scenario analysis. At the operations stage, the playbook describes how data science can be…

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