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WebStreet / Michael Frew Acquire BWPS Business
I'm excited to share that, together with WebStreet, we've recently acquired a BWPS business offering WordPress plugins designed for content protection and monetization.
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What's The Deal With Y Combinator Startups Selling On Acquire.com?
Why are so many venture capital and Y-combinator funded companies showing up on Marketplaces like Acquire.com? Why are they not showing up with more seasoned Online Business brokers or more alongside sophisticated M&A companies?
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The Surprising Truth: Sellers Don't Chase the Highest Offer
Many times a business will look "out of reach" because the offer prices are higher than you can reach with your resources.
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Should I Buy a Starter Online Business First?
One of the questions I've heard the most is, "Should I buy a 'Starter' online business first"? This is a fundamental question, as time, money, and resources are extremely limited.
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Gigalixir Software Acquisition (SaaS)
In 2017, Gigalixir started as a simple idea to help make app deployments one-click easy for the growing Elixir community.
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LetterStack Online Business Acquisition
I'm excited to announce a recent small online business acquisition to add to our growing portfolio of online businesses.
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Hours != Value: What Makes a Small Software Project Sellable?
I'm continually surprised at how smaller project developers fail to understand what makes a purchase valuable to a buyer. Even worse is the disingenuous way these sellers try to trick buyers into purchasing their worthless code.
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8 Buying SaaS Businesses Insights I Learned from David Newell's SaaS Business Valuation Guide
David Newell from Quiet Light Brokerage is one of the most seasoned SaaS-oriented brokers in the online buying and selling community. He recently dropped a 13,000(!) word knowledge-bomb on the topic of How To Build, Value, and Sell A SaaS Business for 6, 7 or 8 Figures.
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Why Buy Instead of Build
I have undergraduate and graduate business degrees, yet I never had a single class covering marketing automation, contractor hiring, cash flow management, online advertising tactics, distributed product development, remote team culture, multi-channel customer support, or converting email leads into online customers.
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Don't Buy A S**tty Little Business
I've been thinking a lot recently about niches to buy businesses and software projects and can't get a lecture out of my head from a guest speaker in my graduate school program.
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