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6 Exits by 24: The Demand-First Startup Sale
- ▶ 12:16 Faze Imran But they don't realize the entire, all the same people are on Facebook, and it's less competitive to get those people, um, on Meta than it is on LinkedIn.
From a Real Problem to a SaaS Product Buyers Wanted
- ▶ 8:06 Jacob Miller So no Facebook ads. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:15 Jacob Miller You know, running Facebook ads, scaling the business, and it's just been, it's been awesome.
Why Local Habits and Simple Tech Created a Perfect Exit
- ▶ 6:57 Renata Rea And then we tried a little bit of, um, um, meta ads, like Instagram ads, Facebook ads.
One Simple Habit Made This Startup Easy to Sell
- ▶ 1:00 Jordan Richards We do the classic stuff, web design, Google ads, Facebook ads, with the
- ▶ 4:28 Jordan Richards He's like, why don't we try Facebook Ads?
- ▶ 6:28 Jordan Richards We, I got some Facebook ads going.
How Focus Closed SwiftNet in 30 Days
- ▶ 2:50 Nikita Danilov I caught the last year of the golden age of drop shipping in 2018, back when you could click a button and, you know, and Facebook on, on Facebook, just some ad and boom, you're making money.
- ▶ 7:42 Nikita Danilov Facebook ads. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:19 Nikita Danilov I didn't do like any of it, just specifically Facebook page, um, and, uh, run the Facebook ads. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:13 Nikita Danilov But essentially, if, if you're not doing dropshipping, if you already have a company, you just want to learn, how do I run Facebook ads? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:20 Nikita Danilov Finally start running Facebook ads, because I can have the time to, like, manage it, and once again, taking, taking the SwiftNet experience, and taking the dropshipping experience, implementing it to the brand for retail, um, and, uh,…
Simple Steps to Get a Bootstrapped AI Startup Acquired
5 Simple Steps To Get a Bootstrapped SaaS Acquired
- ▶ 2:24 Rich Yoon One thing led to another, and then using that, just, uh, my background, like I mentioned, being in growth marketing, we ran some ads on Facebook and Instagram, that was really good, um, as well as Outbound on LinkedIn, and email, just…
- ▶ 4:32 Rich Yoon So like social posts, um, for LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, et cetera.
Profitable. Focused. Built for Dogs. How This Niche eCommerce Brand Got Successfully Acquired
- ▶ 6:29 Matt Breton Um, in the early days of Facebook ads, again, it's evolved very quickly during COVID, but in the early days, we did a lot of Facebook ads. 2 times in the scene
Zero Funding, One Buyer, and a Clean SaaS Exit
- ▶ 3:42 Christopher Lear I think the very first customers came from Facebook group groups. 3 times in the scene
Bootstrapped, Built, Sold: Luka’s Micro-SaaS Exit
- ▶ 1:16 Luka Pekibar sure uh so um it all started i think in well in 2013 2014 we were building um um like a so-called weeks comb competitor uh like a tiny uh website builder uh the the notion was uh at the time uh a lot of businesses were on facebook 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:11 Luka Pekibar Uh, website builder, uh, for Facebook active businesses. 2 times in the scene
Want to Build an Agency Worth Buying? Spend a Decade Saying Yes
- ▶ 2:58 Bobby Domofsky Um, this is when Facebook business first started developing at that time. 3 times in the scene
Turning Your Weakest Skill into an Acquire’d Startup
- ▶ 3:11 unnamed speaker And the, interestingly, like everybody thinks Facebook is dead. 3 times in the scene
How to Build SaaS for an Industry No One Knows About (Except Your Customers)
- ▶ 5:51 Harris Osterman Um, but I posted it in, I posted the link to the tool in some Facebook groups, and then out of the blue we started getting a bunch of high schools using it, and, like, high school teachers rolling it out in their schools.
Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Pascal Levy-Garboua, CEO of Noosa Labs
- ▶ 14:55 Pascal Levy-Garboua Uh, and when I say large platform, I'm talking about the meta apps, I'm talking about Twitter, LinkedIn, you know, things like that.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Cory Lynch, Founder of Solodrop
- ▶ 3:35 Corey Lynch And so I, I built this platform for it.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Jes Bickhart, Founder of Minnow
- ▶ 13:20 Jes Bickhart Um, as far as like Facebook's algorithm goes, like if you get, the more shares you get, the more likely you're going to be featured on that, um, discover page. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:28 Jes Bickhart Um, and, and that also was kind of getting a little shady, you know, Facebook was getting a lot of flack during that time, um, for monetizing on user data.
Startup Acquisition Stories with David Sorbara, Founder of Barkley HQ
- ▶ 6:31 David Sabara Cause if someone calls or messages them on Facebook, they want an appointment time.
Startup Acquisition Stories with JM Sanchez Co-founder of Studia
- ▶ 9:32 Joan Manuel Sanchez Dollar a day in Facebook ads for two markets. 3 times in the scene
Startup Acquisition Stories with Josh Kim, Founder of The Cubby
Startup Acquisition Stories with Alex Rainey, Founder of MyAskAI.com
- ▶ 15:38 Alex Rainey If you're running Google ads, maybe some exports of some of the campaigns you've done there on Facebook, for instance, that kind of stuff.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Marco Fazio, CEO of Hypeal
- ▶ 10:21 Marco Fazio This buyer, uh, for us, um, yeah, it was pretty smooth because at the end of the day, if you know about e-commerce, it's really about, you know, Google analytics, Shopify account, the Facebook account.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Nico Jeanne, Founder of Galeby
- ▶ 24:56 Nico Jeanne It's, uh, yeah, it's, it's pretty much like everything because I was in advertising before, so I needed my, you know, ads to stand out in the newsfeed of Facebook.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Lotanna Ezeike, Founder of Creator Check
- ▶ 3:49 Lotanna Ezeike And luckily enough, Facebook actually has an interest called international students.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Derek Morin and Radu Bogdan, Founders of Tabarnapp
- ▶ 24:34 Derek Morin I think it's slash Derek Moran, D-E-R-E-K-M-O-R-N, but, uh, back then probably the same or Facebook.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Christine McDannell, Founder of The Magnolia Firm
- ▶ 11:20 Christine McDaniel I swear to God, I'm in the Facebook groups.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Harry Henien, Serial Entrepreneur
- ▶ 13:37 Harry Hennion So if, let's say, as an example, you have a, you know, wealth management business, like, it's not enough to just run Google Ads and Facebook Ads and, you know, all that stuff.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Colin Keeley, Founder at Verne (Acquire'd 2x)
- ▶ 15:33 Colin Keeley So like the obvious one would be Facebook and Instagram, but there's made no money before. 3 times in the scene
Startup Acquisition Stories with Joe Speiser - Partner at HamptonVC
- ▶ 3:37 Joe Speiser You know, having Shopify as like the overlord that can decide to delist you or take away your reviews was really scary to me after my experience with Facebook and a previous company.
- ▶ 5:43 Joe Speiser And then Facebook just dropped the hammer on us one day and, uh, kind of destroyed our business, which was my point with like Shopify. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:36 Joe Speiser I don't want to be buying Facebook ads or shilling it on Twitter.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Mark Davis - Managing Partner at Interplay
- ▶ 46:58 Andrew Gazdecki I think you could probably go through your entire portfolio and look at businesses before Facebook that ate it. 3 times in the scene
Startup Acquisition Stories with Lloyed Lobo - Founder of Boast.ai and Traction
- ▶ 16:05 Andrew Gazdecki So we have, um, a Facebook group. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:19 Andrew Gazdecki Like, I think a lot of founders, like, get in this trap where Facebook ads start working really well.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Andrew Dumont, CEO of Stamped
- ▶ 21:24 Andrew Dumont Yeah, uh, stamped is stamped.io, um, tiny is tiny.com, uh, on Twitter, at Andrew Dumont, uh, LinkedIn the same, Facebook the same, so
Startup Acquisition Stories with Ramzey Nassar- Co-Founder & CEO at DOE Media
- ▶ 18:00 Ramsey Nassar So we work with a bunch of brands in different verticals, um, running their paid search, you know, Google and Bing, paid Facebook and Instagram ads, TikTok, Snapchat, Pinterest, Taboola, Outbrain,
Startup Acquisition Stories with Frank Kosarek - Head Of Sourcing at OpenStore
- ▶ 11:29 Frank Kosarek Um, and of course, Facebook's doing their best to, to counteract some of that.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch - Founder of Simple.ink
- ▶ 11:55 Daniel Ch We just chose it because it was in your Facebook group, in the Microquire Facebook group. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:42 Daniel Ch I know what you say about the whiteboard, like the one I've seen you post the Facebook screenshot of what you had in your office in Chico, if I'm not mistaken, in your first office that you wrote something on your whiteboard and you kept…
- ▶ 26:53 Andrew Gazdecki Uh, definitely, you know, share it in the, uh, micro required, you know, premium buyer Facebook group and, uh, I'll do what I can to support it.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Aaron Stone (Founder) & Zach Hendershot (Managing Partner) from Crux Digital
- ▶ 10:18 unnamed speaker Facebook is a good example for that.