Tara Reed
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Nov 15, 2021
Nov 15, 2021 negative
Reed: Formal technical due diligence is unhelpful for micro-SaaS acquisitions
“I actually worked with a due diligence company, actually, who, like, went to the code base and did all of that work, and I felt like they It just wasn't all that helpful at the deal sites that I was doing to get that level of, like, there were things that were…”
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Reed: Growth Spree targets marketing businesses, software, and LinkedIn tools
“In general, I'm looking for marketing related businesses. We're not exclusively looking at software. So there are some like education businesses and some agencies, but sort of that's trio. Of education software agency, primarily leaning on softwares. I am real…”
Nov 15, 2021 positive
Nov 15, 2021
Reed: Sellers Unwilling to Discuss Motivations Are an Acquisition Red Flag
“I find that, like, a red flag is just, like, unwillingness to talk about much at all. It's like, if we're gonna go into business together and we're gonna work on something, like, we sort of have to talk about where we're going and what we're motivated by.”
Nov 15, 2021 positive
Reed: Splitting Acquisition Price into Asset and Contractor Fees Optimizes Taxes
“The other part that's really important about how we structure the deals just for like tax planning purposes. Is we'll do a lot of the asset purchase. We'll be like, we'll take the amount that we agree upon, and a particular percentage of that will be actually …”
Nov 15, 2021 positive
Tara Reed: Premium pricing works far better than high-volume low pricing for bootstrappers
“I'm not really that interested in the like low price point, but we've got lots of customers model. I actually prefer premium price points as a business model and sort of learned that in my first two businesses. One where I did a low price .1 where I did a prem…”
Nov 15, 2021
Reed has walked away from multiple deals over poor relational fit
“There have been multiple times where it just, like, it didn't feel right, and I pulled out because it didn't feel right. The collaboration of how we were working together, how the meeting went just didn't feel right, and that's okay.”
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Reed: Marketing and distribution potential is primary criterion when evaluating acquisitions
“Like that's not going to be my superpower. I'm probably not going to come up with a bunch of product ideas is what they can do differently. I'm going to come up with a marketing and distribution idea. Or how we're going to like wrap this in something that can …”
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Nov 15, 2021
Tara Reed discloses acquiring Copycat and Way on MicroAcquire
“So there's been two the first one is called copycat and it's a copywriting AI software. And the other one the most recent one is called way. And so it's a software that helps you build a website. So a website building tool. The first company was the founders b…”
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Tara Reed: Growth Spree acquires small marketing software businesses
“We decided that we're going to be creating another entity, and really through that separate entity, investing in and buying primarily marketing related software businesses, but putting our own spin on the distribution of them. So, so that's where, so I've got …”