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6 Exits by 24: The Demand-First Startup Sale
- ▶ 7:51 Faze Imran We got into a handful of retail chains and, uh, sold online on Amazon.
This Changes Retail Forever! | Who is Rohan Manthani? | Streamoid | Startup Stories Podcast
- ▶ 10:44 Rohan Manthani And now, you know, typically if you're listing a product online and you list it in multiple places, not just your own website, you list it in like an Amazon, maybe Mintra, Flipkart, wherever you want to sell. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:12 unnamed speaker Like, now let's say I want it listed at some, what do you call website, I understand that when it comes to Flipkart, Amazon, and so, they do take care of logistics as well.
An Amazon Brand That Became a Business Sale
- ▶ 1:38 Anna Schramm I was the Amazon seller, but I was not the one of this Amazon seller 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:55 Anna Schramm Um, I was using the, um, the wine platform, uh, program that Amazon is providing to give the first reviews, and once the first reviews were there,
- ▶ 3:18 Andrew Gazdecki So the, I don't, I don't know anything about Amazon. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:53 Andrew Gazdecki Was it working with Amazon? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:07 Anna Schramm Amazon account.
Why Waiting Made This Startup Actually Worth Selling
- ▶ 0:50 unnamed speaker I've been in, I do web development, so I had an agency where I was doing, uh, web development and, uh, direct, uh, marketing, and before that, I was doing more or less, I was in a lot of, uh, retail, like, um, I, I did Amazon, uh, FBA…
Why is lifestyle the next big thing? | Startup Stories Uncut | Episode 1
- ▶ 5:25 Naveen Arun People can't afford that lifestyle work with imagining, and moreover convenience has become very, it's like a fingertip, flip card, Amazon, Zomato, Swiggy, you name it, you get it, and the faster the money goes away.
How Focus Closed SwiftNet in 30 Days
- ▶ 13:26 Nikita Danilov And then ultimately they ended up selling it on Amazon because it was, it was like, I actually, you know, got the maid with the, uh, with the logo, with my logo and, and so on.
- ▶ 15:38 Nikita Danilov So it's Amazon, it's Shopify.
- ▶ 28:55 Nikita Danilov Amazon, and, um, it was just essentially kind of like an autopilot, right? 2 times in the scene
How a College Shopify App Project Turned Into a Profitable Exit
- ▶ 10:59 unnamed speaker One thing, whatever, like, if you're building a startup and you're building, uh, buying multiple services accounts like AWS, Railway, whatever, use one singular Gmail account, and that should have access to everything, um, from customer… 3 times in the scene
What It Takes to Turn Complexity Into a Successful Exit
- ▶ 12:50 Andrew Gazdecki So videos on how the code base works, even from a high level, like this functions here, we use AWS and these.
Simple Steps to Get a Bootstrapped AI Startup Acquired
- ▶ 15:05 Andrew Gazdecki You know, having all of your accounts separate, not having like your AWS account mixed with four other different startups or projects just makes everything so much smoother when you get to due diligence and the transfer stage.
From Side Hustle to Clean Exit in 30 Days
- ▶ 4:17 Chris Schwab I hired my first VA in 2016, so people had used VAs for Amazon stores and other purposes before, but no one had really used them for a local business.
How to Sell Your Startup for a Life-Changing Payout
- ▶ 18:22 Emmett Cooke So one thing I never really thought about was, for example, I have, like, an Amazon account, and it's under my personal email address, so it was really difficult to, like, pull that out and actually put it into the company.
This Founder Sold His Startup, Bought it Back for Pennies, and Resold it on Acquire.com for 5 Figures
- ▶ 4:42 Quayam (Q) And on that list of 10 was like Walmart, Amazon.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Justin Vanderheide, Founder of Swimgen
- ▶ 16:53 Justin Vanderheide Like, there are, you start to realize just how many accounts there were that you set up eight years ago for, you know, email notifications and all this other stuff, and then maybe you're on some super legacy AWS account from
Startup Acquisition Stories with Simon Thompson, Founder of Podseeker
- ▶ 22:02 Andrew Gazdecki Within a month, Amazon released a free version of what I had built.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Jes Bickhart, Founder of Minnow
- ▶ 16:31 Jes Bickhart They were like, 10 to the 15% swings every quarter in stock prices of like Comcast, Netflix, Apple, Amazon.
- ▶ 26:34 Jes Bickhart Um, and while this process is going, you still need to fund operations, you know, like you can't just stop paying your AWS bill, you know?
- ▶ 29:52 Jes Bickhart We, uh, you know, our, our engineers joined forces with their engineers, and we started integrating all into sets and, you know, kind of changing the credit cards on the AWS, that sort of thing.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Josh Kim, Founder of The Cubby
Startup Acquisition Stories with Joe Benjamin, Founder of RevPilots
- ▶ 8:56 Andrew Gazdecki Cause I, I talk to founders sometimes where they'll have, you know, multiple different, you know, projects, products all on the same, you know, Stripe account or AWS account, they got to pull it out.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Marco Fazio, CEO of Hypeal
- ▶ 2:19 Marco Fazio But literally listed a few ideas that I had looked at the market, looked at Amazon, looked at Kickstarter, other crowdfunding platform, see what was there.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Lotanna Ezeike, Founder of Creator Check
- ▶ 14:50 Andrew Gazdecki Yeah, transferring assets can, can sometimes be harder than due diligence, just because, like, I've heard stories of people having, you know, some, some really good products or businesses inside of a single AWS account, they got to pull it…
Startup Acquisition Stories with David Mellstrom, Co-founder of Buddy
- ▶ 4:15 David Maelstrom Um, and then, you know, that, that ease or that, that frictionless buying process, uh, is something that people have really gotten used to with, you know, things like Amazon, uh, or bolt.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Minh-Phuc Tran, Founder of Queue.so
- ▶ 11:45 Minh-Phuc Tran That's kind of weird, but then because like in the last part of, uh, access transfer, there's like a lot of, like, uh, code base, AWS accounts, Stripe account, all of these.
Startup Acquisition Stories with JJ Englert, Founder of Jump Studios
- ▶ 4:48 JJ Englert It's on AWS servers.
- ▶ 12:13 Andrew Gazdecki Um, it's on, you mentioned AWS, it's built on Bubble.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Andrew Amann, CEO at 923 Venture Studio
- ▶ 16:19 Andrew Amann And he would then own the AWS that supported the infrastructure of the admin portal. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:30 Andrew Amann So prior to the sale, the first tip is basically make sure the app is in a position that can be transferred, put it in its own AWS account, as we talked about, make sure Apple and Google can be transferred very easily, um, and make sure…
Startup Acquisition Stories with Michael Michelis, Co-founder of Intelistyle
- ▶ 7:17 Michael Miklas So I had like separate AWS account, separate Shopify account, uh, separate, uh, hosting, uh, web hosting. 2 times in the scene
Startup Acquisition Stories with Harry Henien, Serial Entrepreneur
- ▶ 8:01 Harry Hennion And I asked my developer, I said, you know, why is, why are we using, like, Vercel here, you know, AWS, um, Heruko, you know, like, there's bits and pieces everywhere, and at first, like, to be honest, I was, you know, I was, like, scared.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Grace McBride, Founder of Lucia
- ▶ 17:28 Grace McBride Oh man, I really love Arianna Huffington's Thrive, so that one would probably be top book for me, um, and then item to bring with me, uh, again, I'm a reader, so I'll just bring the Kindle.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Chris Achard, Founder of AcornChat
- ▶ 9:11 Chris Achard I turned two-factor off, or I switched it to his phone, and then, like, you know, he read the code to me and stuff, so there's sort of a dance around some of the accounts, and then the other thing that was tricky was AWS. 3 times in the scene
Startup Acquisition Stories with Joe Speiser - Partner at HamptonVC
- ▶ 14:12 Joe Speiser It's like checking out on Amazon, you know.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Lloyed Lobo - Founder of Boast.ai and Traction
- ▶ 29:54 Lloyd Lobo I'd post them on mechanical Turk, which is a place where, you know, people can do low value tasks for pennies on the dollar and, and post that.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Lauralynn Drury - VP of Experience, StayTuned Digital
- ▶ 21:17 Andrew Gazdecki Um, and then, I don't know what your take is on this, but, um, you know, even if you bought something like, you know, at, um, you know, the peak, not all .com stocks, but, um, like if you bought Amazon at the peak, which was, I think, a…
Startup Acquisition Stories with Andrew Dumont, CEO of Stamped
- ▶ 13:31 Andrew Dumont Um, there was a ton of opportunity in, you know, pre-committing on AWS and kind of reducing hosting expenses, which was one of the primary, uh, OpEx, uh, components of that business.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Greg Lazarus - Managing Director at Polychrome Capital
- ▶ 22:03 Greg Lazarus Biographies, and trying to learn about people, and what they built, and how they, like, run teams, and how they think, and I try to make it my own after, after that, so, so currently right now, I'm, I'm, uh, I'm reading the Phil Jackson…
Startup Acquisition Stories with Rick Garcia - Founder and COO of G12 Communications
- ▶ 31:26 Rick Garcia That, that is, they're not ready just yet, but they're going to be like, I think of all this Alexa stuff, right?
Startup Acquisition Stories with Arsen Nurmagomedov Founder of Restpack
- ▶ 9:48 Arsen Nurmagomedov We just like send the document and give access to all the Stripe account, AWS and everything.