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Verne

4 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 13, 2022 by Colin Keeley · said 8 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Sep 13, 2022 neutral
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Keeley: Verne Recently Lost Deals to Constellation Software
“We just got beat out on a couple of deals by them recently, which is kind of cool. It's like, you know, losing basketball to Michael Jordan or something.”
Colin Keeley Sep 13, 2022 ▶ 8:53 Startup Acquisition Stories with Colin Keeley, Founder at Verne (Acquire'd 2x)
Sep 13, 2022
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Keeley: Verne acquired BlinkSale for a six-figure price
“Yeah, it was six figures. I don't know if I could, I don't think I could say exact numbers, but in the six figures is owned by this guy, Brandon who was a serial founder and had done acquisitions before. So like we couldn't have possibly bet bought from like a…”
Colin Keeley Sep 13, 2022 ▶ 3:23 Startup Acquisition Stories with Colin Keeley, Founder at Verne (Acquire'd 2x)
Sep 13, 2022
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Keeley: Acquiring a $400K business takes the same work as $4M
“I guess we probably quickly realized, like, if you're doing something that's 200,000, or like two million, or four hundred thousand and four million, like, it's roughly the same amount of work, so leaning more towards these, like, single digit ARR companies.”
Colin Keeley Sep 13, 2022 ▶ 5:37 Startup Acquisition Stories with Colin Keeley, Founder at Verne (Acquire'd 2x)
Sep 13, 2022
Disclosure
Keeley: Verne typically values acquisitions using SDE and pays 1-4x ARR
“Seller discretionary earnings is typically how we value it. And then we say we often pay, like, one to four times ARR”
Colin Keeley Sep 13, 2022 ▶ 6:19 Startup Acquisition Stories with Colin Keeley, Founder at Verne (Acquire'd 2x)
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