Buyers asking excessive pre-LOI questions often just research to replicate startups
“If people ask too many questions, especially before the letter of intent, They're usually not particularly serious about it. There is this trend, not only on acquire.com, on Flippa and other websites, where people pay the monthly queue, whatever, and go on the…”
Huthmeyer acquired Auto Forward SMS for $7,500 after prior deal collapsed
“I bought it for seven and a half grand, I think, because the owner had the deal lined up, but the guy who bought it, like bought it, Before me, never sent the money, never did the transfer.”
Latka: Marketplace micro-SaaS acquisitions typically close at 1x to 1.5x revenue
“I mean, the most of the deals are the ones like what you did right there for like one X or sometimes 1.5 X is usually what happens.”
Van Meer Bought a Piñata Site for $5K, Sold for $22K
“I bought that for 5000 dollars that I scraped together improve the website traffic and make my money back in two and a half months and then sold it a month later for 22,000.”
Quiry names Flippa and Andrew Wilkinson's platform as top deal-sourcing sites
“My favorite two are without a doubt Flippa and Andrew's new play.”
Quiry sold NinjaOutreach for more than double his $1.2M purchase price
“I just don't remember, but it was more than double than what I paid.”
Quiry argues SaaS founders do not need brokers charging 15% exit fees
“If someone has the capability to start and grow a SaaS company, there are outlets like Flippa that don't require you to go spend 10 or 50% of your initial eventual outcome on a fee. Absolutely unnecessary, in my opinion, for everybody. Some people need it. Som…”
Flippa's CEO brokered Quiry's handshake sale of NinjaOutreach in 48 hours
“The CEO saw the deal, saw that it was the most popular deal on Flippa in terms of watchers, traffic, and eyeballs. Picked up the phone to, I guess an outfit called TCM that was actively buying deals. And I guess they had communicated and already done a big dea…”
Hutchison: 2-4 Year Old SaaS Averages 3x SDE Multiple on Flippa
“What we're seeing on average is a three times net profit multiple or SDA multiple seller discretionary earnings on a SAS asset, which is between two and four years old.”
Hutchison: Flippa receives roughly 4,500 new asset listings monthly
“We see around four and a half thousand listings a month on the platform across the collection of digital assets, and those digital assets are SaaS businesses, as if you, as you've alluded to so well, Nathan, and I know your community is very passionate about, …”
Hutchison: Flippa converts 35% of all listed digital assets into sales
“So we convert at 35%. So 35% of all assets list on Flipper, sell on Flipper.”
Hutchison: Flippa crossed three million registered users in 2020
“We have over three million users. In fact, it was two weeks ago that Flippa signed up its three millionth user.”
Hutchison: Flippa has 1.5M active buyer accounts in six-month window
“We have 1.5 million active buyer accounts. So those are buyers looking at the platform and they have looked at the platform and considered a listing within the prior six month period.”
Hutchison: Flippa's average digital asset sale price is $75,000
“The average sale price is 75,000 dollars.”
Hutchison: Flippa Uses Three Years of Asset Data for Valuation Ranges
“What we have is we have 10 years worth of historical sales data. Now, of course, 10 years ago, there were very few High value digital assets being sold in a marketplace context, and so less, less data than we would like. But over the last three years, we've go…”
Hutchison: Overpricing Assets Shrinks Buyer Catchment Due to Budget Filters
“If what people forget is that buyers do set Budgets, and that's how the match, the matching algorithm works. So if a buyer has a two million dollar budget, and you've priced at 2.5, that would be considered, and that was considered unreasonable. You're going t…”
Hutchison: Flippa has reached $600M in lifetime total transaction value
“No, so we're at about 600,000,600 million in, in transactional TTV, so total transaction value.”
Hutchison: Flippa sees over 10M keyword searches per month
“So we see just over ten million monthly keyword searches on Flippa.”
Hutchison: Flippa receives just under 100K monthly searches for SaaS
“Yeah, so SaaS is in our top 15, our top 15 searches, so what that means is you've got just under a 100,000 searches a month, just under a 100,000 searches a month for SaaS.”
Hutchison: Maximizing listing transparency accelerates buyer bids more than intentional underpricing
“I don't think they should intentionally underprice. I think there's three, ah, there's three tips I would provide. One, be as transparent as possible, because you want bids to come in as soon as possible. If you leave too much to chance, you are slowing down t…”
Hutchison: Flippa charges a 5% success fee for assets over $100,000
“One, there's a best price guarantee, but for any asset over a 100,000 dollars, which is most of the founders that we'll be talking to on this podcast it's a five percent success fee.”
Hutchison: NinjaOutreach's Flippa listing attracted over 20,000 buyer views
“There's a SaaS asset that's on the platform right now. You can check it out ninjaoutreach.com. I think you can see that it's got over 20,000 buyer views when I last checked.”