Justin Vanderheide

8 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2024 by Justin Vanderheide · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2024 positive
Insight
Vanderheide: Answering Early Buyer Questions Progressively Improves M&A Data Packages
“People had a lot of questions, but anytime you go digging and you answer their questions, you know, you just put that with all the other data and then for any future folks that come along, it's there. And so the data you have available for people, you know, ju…”
Justin Vanderheide Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 11:59 Startup Acquisition Stories with Justin Vanderheide, Founder of Swimgen
Jan 2, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Vanderheide: US-Canada Acquisitions Cannot Directly Transfer Stripe Accounts
“Because I was Canadian, getting acquired by American companies, we couldn't just transfer the Stripe account because it's, like, set as a Canadian entity type thing, so we had to actually, like, switch over Stripe keys and stuff, which wasn't as seamless, but …”
Justin Vanderheide Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 17:11 Startup Acquisition Stories with Justin Vanderheide, Founder of Swimgen
Jan 2, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Vanderheide Sold Zendesk Apps Portfolio to an Investor Aggregator Group
“On the Zendesk side of things, I didn't feel as passionately that it had to be, you know, passionate solo dev. And so that one went to like a group of investors that are just scooping up a bunch of smaller, smaller apps and things like that.”
Justin Vanderheide Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 13:28 Startup Acquisition Stories with Justin Vanderheide, Founder of Swimgen
Jan 2, 2024 positive
Insight
Vanderheide: Founders Should Provide Granular Raw Data in Acquisition Listings
“Over explain everything in your listing. There's not going to be too much data available to people. So, you know, if you've got the exact, you know, monthly data points of visits, revenue, everything like they can break it out and look at it however they want.…”
Justin Vanderheide Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 14:31 Startup Acquisition Stories with Justin Vanderheide, Founder of Swimgen
Jan 2, 2024
Insight
Vanderheide: Never Hide Flaws; Share Raw Data Upfront in Due Diligence
“Don't try to, like, hide things, it'll, it'll come out in due diligence, so I'm just in that initial data dump, like I said, over-explain, just post all the raw data, even if you've got it, and they can look at it as is.”
Justin Vanderheide Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 18:24 Startup Acquisition Stories with Justin Vanderheide, Founder of Swimgen
Jan 2, 2024 positive
Insight
Vanderheide: Selling Founders Should Accept Almost Every Buyer Call Request
“I'd say pretty well every request for a face-to-face call, and I wouldn't be too choosy unless you're overwhelmingly busy. You never know what's going to come out of that discussion face-to-face. I maybe only had one that was like really not productive and sho…”
Justin Vanderheide Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 14:59 Startup Acquisition Stories with Justin Vanderheide, Founder of Swimgen
Jan 2, 2024
Disclosure
Vanderheide Recreated Sunsetted Zendesk Apps for One Dollar Per Agent Monthly
“So I recreated a bunch of the apps that had been available for free nominal price of, you know, one dollar per support agent per month and managed to get those out really quick.”
Justin Vanderheide Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 4:45 Startup Acquisition Stories with Justin Vanderheide, Founder of Swimgen
Jan 2, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Vanderheide Rejected Private Equity Offers to Sell Swimgen to Solo Developer
“Yeah, for SwimGen, I felt quite strongly about making sure the right person was taking it on, and so the private equity firms, family offices, the more businessy folks, I was shying away from a little bit. In the end, I did sell it to sort of like passionate, …”
Justin Vanderheide Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 12:56 Startup Acquisition Stories with Justin Vanderheide, Founder of Swimgen
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