| 118% | “118%” | Calderon: StratDev Grew ~118% Year-Over-Year Over Five Years | Jordan Calderon | Jul 14, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Imran's Business Blurb generated one billion Gen Z views in three months. | Faze Imran | Jul 2, 2026 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Imran claims his startup Backspace accumulated a two-million-person waitlist. | Faze Imran | Jul 2, 2026 | — |
| 12M | “twelve million” | Imran: Scaled Fraction from $2M to $12M ARR in one year. | Faze Imran | Jul 2, 2026 | — |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Gazdecki: Founder friend netted only $6 million from a $150 million acquisition. | Andrew Gazdecki | Jul 2, 2026 | — |
| $7M | “seven million dollars” | Gazdecki: Founder friend netted only $6 million from a $150 million acquisition. | Andrew Gazdecki | Jul 2, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Imran: Founders targeting $1 million annually should launch service businesses, not startups. | Faze Imran | Jul 2, 2026 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Gazdecki: 99% of Acquire.com buyers want to retain existing teams | Andrew Gazdecki | Jun 23, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Manthani: Streamoid aims to let one person run a billion-dollar brand | Rohan Manthani | Jun 18, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Manthani: Retrofitting AI into legacy workflows yields only 10-20% improvement | Rohan Manthani | Jun 18, 2026 | — |
| 38% | “38%” | Manthani: Streamoid cut e-commerce client return rates by five percent | Rohan Manthani | Jun 18, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Manthani: Streamoid cut e-commerce client return rates by five percent | Rohan Manthani | Jun 18, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | Gostecki: Proving a business runs without the founder attracts buyers | Andrew Gazdecki | May 26, 2026 | — |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Miller built Seen entirely with Claude and Lovable without writing code | Jacob Miller | Apr 21, 2026 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Graber details acquisition buy box: specialized agency, recurring revenue, $300k+ EBITDA | Joel Graber | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | Gostecki: Layering GTM expertise onto existing products is the top M&A opportunity | Andrew Gazdecki | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | GoRecover users recovered 20% of abandoned carts via WhatsApp | Renata Rea | Feb 3, 2026 | — |
| 220% | “220%” | Rea's new marketing app Revy grew 220% last year | Renata Rea | Feb 3, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Simmons: Apreva Evaluates Condition of Nearly 100M US Properties via AI | Zach Simmons | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Acquirer Napkin Previously Bought a Design Subscription Business at Lower Price Points | Phil Goodwin | Dec 16, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 60% | “60%” | Yummy Bee reports an approximate 60% repeat customer rate | Sandeep Jangala | Dec 16, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | MainStreet reached high eight-figure ARR with Tinsley retaining over 50% equity. | Jesse Tinsley | Nov 11, 2025 | — |
| 5T | “five trillion” | Naveen Arun: Global wellness economy will exceed $5T in five years | Naveen Arun | Oct 9, 2025 | Held up |
| 80% | “80%” | Arun: Traditionally 80% of Indian small businesses are family-driven | Naveen Arun | Oct 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 4M | “3002 1001 thousand” | Danilov: Founders should never hire marketing agencies on a retainer basis | Nikita Danilov | Oct 7, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Danilov: Selling founders should hand buyers a 10x business scaling plan | Nikita Danilov | Oct 7, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Gazdecki Predicts Direct Leads From AI Search Will Surge Soon | Andrew Gazdecki | Sep 24, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Elgazar: Cold outreach to influencers yielded an 80 percent response rate | Itai Elgazar | Sep 16, 2025 | — |
| 1.5K | “a half thousand” | Elgazar: SuperDev had roughly 200 paying users when it was acquired | Itai Elgazar | Sep 16, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Elgazar: Bootstrapping AI apps to $1M ARR is hindered by LLM costs | Itai Elgazar | Sep 16, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Khan: ChatFi hit one million users within one year | Umar Khan | Aug 25, 2025 | — |
| 2.4M | “2.4 million” | Carroll: Alpine Rings Grew From $300k Revenue to $2.4M Run Rate Before Sale | Alex Carroll | Aug 11, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Carroll: Custom engraving drove 30% to 40% revenue boost for Alpine Rings | Alex Carroll | Aug 11, 2025 | — |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Yardini: EssayGrader Reached $500K ARR in the Current Fiscal Year | Chan Yardini | Jul 21, 2025 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Yardini Projects EssayGrader Will Surpass $1M ARR By Year's End | Chan Yardini | Jul 21, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Yardini: Small Business Buyers Should Prioritize Competitor Validation Over Profitability | Chan Yardini | Jul 21, 2025 | — |
| 4× | “four X” | Yardini: Small Business Buyers Should Prioritize Competitor Validation Over Profitability | Chan Yardini | Jul 21, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Yardini: Small Business Buyers Should Prioritize Competitor Validation Over Profitability | Chan Yardini | Jul 21, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Yardini Claims EssayGrader Captures 60% of AI Grading Search Traffic | Chan Yardini | Jul 21, 2025 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | Innova Local buyer previously scaled IT staffing agencies to $20M-$40M | Chris Schwab | May 27, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Cooke: Music software industry has at most 10,000 companies | Emmett Cooke | Mar 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Pulse had 360,000 users and over 100 B2B clients at acquisition | Emmett Cooke | Mar 25, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Cooke: Scaling revenue 20-40% pre-sale massively increases startup valuation | Emmett Cooke | Mar 25, 2025 | — |
| 18× | “18 X” | Rosen: Nomad Cloud sold for an 18x return in 11 months | Gabby Rosen | Feb 12, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “A million” | Rosen: Nomad Cloud's original founder held a scraped list of 1M users | Gabby Rosen | Feb 12, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Saini: Listed Reetail at a 3x multiple, well below typical SaaS valuations | Sukh (Paul) Saini | Jan 29, 2025 | — |
| 6× | “six X” | Saini: Listed Reetail at a 3x multiple, well below typical SaaS valuations | Sukh (Paul) Saini | Jan 29, 2025 | — |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Saini: Selling lifetime deals on API-dependent AI software risks negative unit economics | Sukh (Paul) Saini | Jan 29, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | ForMJ Social Lost 25% of Revenue in a Single Phone Call | Bobby Domofsky | Jan 3, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | Domofsky: Founders should define upfront cash minimums and financing limits early | Bobby Domofsky | Jan 3, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Ian Blair: $100M B2C brands get famous while B2B equivalents remain unknown | Ian Blair | Nov 20, 2024 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Acquirers valuing tech and moats pay higher multiples than cash-flow buyers | Mark Givko | Sep 25, 2024 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Ginan: Untested production bug dropped TalkNotes sales by 70% overnight | Nico Ginan | Sep 19, 2024 | — |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Fider reached $1,000 MRR on autopilot after transitioning from free to paid | Guilhermo Oenning | Aug 22, 2024 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Metelsky: Sitekick.ai Acquirer Won Deal With 10% Refundable Retainer | Viktor Metelsky | Jul 24, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Levy-Garboua: WhatsApp cease-and-desist killed Noosa Labs' biggest potential revenue success | Pascal Levy-Garboua | Jul 3, 2024 | — |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Pacifici: Generalist and Big Law attorneys poorly serve the $2M–$25M market | Eric Pacifici | Jun 26, 2024 | — |
| 25M | “twenty five million” | Pacifici: Generalist and Big Law attorneys poorly serve the $2M–$25M market | Eric Pacifici | Jun 26, 2024 | — |
| 5B | “fifty hundred million” | Pacifici: Generalist and Big Law attorneys poorly serve the $2M–$25M market | Eric Pacifici | Jun 26, 2024 | — |
| 6M | “a five million” | Pacifici: Generalist and Big Law attorneys poorly serve the $2M–$25M market | Eric Pacifici | Jun 26, 2024 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Pacifici: SMB Law Group closed $950M in enterprise value last year | Eric Pacifici | Jun 26, 2024 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Pacifici: SMB deals typically die in financial diligence or from deal fatigue | Eric Pacifici | Jun 26, 2024 | — |
| 45% | “45%” | Pacifici: SMB deals typically die in financial diligence or from deal fatigue | Eric Pacifici | Jun 26, 2024 | — |
| $1.5M | “half a million dollars” | Jeel Patel's Upper Route Planner has reached $500,000 in ARR | Jil Patel | Jun 3, 2024 | — |
| 4% | “four percent” | Traditional M&A brokers charge 10-20% fees compared to Acquire.com's 4% | Noor Shaaban | Apr 24, 2024 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Traditional M&A brokers charge 10-20% fees compared to Acquire.com's 4% | Noor Shaaban | Apr 24, 2024 | — |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Gazdecki: Luke Shepard sold his startup for $500,000 at age 23 | Andrew Gazdecki | Mar 26, 2024 | Open |
| 95% | “95%” | Shepard: 95% of competitor CEOs agreed to meet with college founder | Luke Shepard | Mar 26, 2024 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Shepard: SaaS is valued on profitability and founder independence, not revenue | Luke Shepard | Mar 26, 2024 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Gazdecki: Startups have roughly a 5% chance with strategic buyers | Andrew Gazdecki | Mar 26, 2024 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Gazdecki: SBA loan process is identical for $500K and $5M deals | Andrew Gazdecki | Mar 26, 2024 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Shepard would pay 2% higher interest to avoid SBA loans | Luke Shepard | Mar 26, 2024 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Gazdecki: Cold calling can make acquisition targets 100x more successful | Andrew Gazdecki | Mar 26, 2024 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Gazdecki: David Idol's extension reached 279k weekly active users with zero marketing | Andrew Gazdecki | Mar 19, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Sinise: Linq Commerce hit 1,000 users in its first month | Adam Sinise | Mar 12, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Gazdecki: Unrealistic 10x revenue expectations are why startups fail to sell | Andrew Gazdecki | Mar 5, 2024 | — |
| 45% | “45%” | Gazdecki: Startup buyers are 50% individuals, 45% PE, and 5% strategics | Andrew Gazdecki | Mar 5, 2024 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Gazdecki: Startup buyers are 50% individuals, 45% PE, and 5% strategics | Andrew Gazdecki | Mar 5, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Gazdecki: Startup buyers are 50% individuals, 45% PE, and 5% strategics | Andrew Gazdecki | Mar 5, 2024 | — |
| 21M | “a twenty million” | Schroter: Startups Drop to Zero Valuation the Minute Cashless Founders Quit | Will Schroter | Feb 27, 2024 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Schroter: Distressed cap table restructuring must treat past capital as completely lost | Will Schroter | Feb 27, 2024 | — |
| 51M | “a fifty million” | Schroter: Distressed cap table restructuring must treat past capital as completely lost | Will Schroter | Feb 27, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Schroter: Acquiring One Million Startup Customers Failed to Deliver Cross-Selling Value | Will Schroter | Feb 27, 2024 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Schroter: Startups.com Achieved a 50x Return Acquiring Distressed Startups | Will Schroter | Feb 27, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Martin Galovic: FansMetrics Peaked at Six Million Monthly Visitors | Martin Galovic | Jan 22, 2024 | — |
| 6M | “six million” | Martin Galovic: FansMetrics Peaked at Six Million Monthly Visitors | Martin Galovic | Jan 22, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Martin Galovic: FansMetrics Achieved 50% Month-Over-Month Early Stage Growth | Martin Galovic | Jan 22, 2024 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Ken Savage: Solopreneur Agency Yielded 3.5x Income on One-Third the Time | Ken Savage | Jan 16, 2024 | — |
| $500K | “Half million dollars” | Gazdecki: Stock Alarm was recently acquired for $500,000 | Andrew Gazdecki | Jan 9, 2024 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Gazdecki: Startups should stop and ship at 90% completion | Andrew Gazdecki | Nov 29, 2023 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Gazdecki: Startups should stop and ship at 90% completion | Andrew Gazdecki | Nov 29, 2023 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Aiello: Founders estimating a product is 80% complete are actually 20% done | Salvatore Aiello | Nov 29, 2023 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Aiello: Founders estimating a product is 80% complete are actually 20% done | Salvatore Aiello | Nov 29, 2023 | — |
| 1.2M | “1.2 million” | Aiello: Unprompted viral influencer video drove $15K revenue in three days | Salvatore Aiello | Nov 29, 2023 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Aiello: DimeADozen listed on Acquire.com at 3x revenue after six months | Salvatore Aiello | Nov 29, 2023 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Gazdecki: Software businesses cannot be passed down as generational family assets | Andrew Gazdecki | Nov 14, 2023 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Lynch: A single TikTok generated two million views and $10k for Solodrop | Corey Lynch | Oct 31, 2023 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Bickhart applied to Y Combinator eight or nine times before Minnow | Jes Bickhart | Oct 24, 2023 | — |
| 2× | “two times” | Bickhart: TV discovery is harder than music due to longer sampling times | Jes Bickhart | Oct 24, 2023 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Gazdecki: Crypto exchange compliance would have cost $10 million and two years | Andrew Gazdecki | Oct 24, 2023 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Bickhart: Letting the buyer draft transaction documents saved 90% in legal fees | Jes Bickhart | Oct 24, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Gazdecki: Selling his first startup cost $170,000 in legal fees at $1,000/hour | Andrew Gazdecki | Oct 24, 2023 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Daniel Ch: Simple.ink acquired its first users via discounted annual pre-orders | Daniel Ch | Oct 10, 2023 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Gazdecki: SaaS startups average 2.8 years to hit $1M ARR; 4% succeed | Andrew Gazdecki | Oct 10, 2023 | Supported |
| 4% | “four percent” | Gazdecki: SaaS startups average 2.8 years to hit $1M ARR; 4% succeed | Andrew Gazdecki | Oct 10, 2023 | Supported |
| 5M | “five million” | Gethers: Traditional M&A sales processes require around $5M in EBITDA | Devon Gathers | Oct 3, 2023 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Gethers: EarlyAdmit saw 75 NDAs and 15% buyer engagement on Acquire.com | Devon Gathers | Oct 3, 2023 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | Gethers: Left Mercado Partners to focus full-time on selling EarlyAdmit | Devon Gathers | Oct 3, 2023 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Gethers: EarlyAdmit operated at 40% profit margins during acquisition process | Devon Gathers | Oct 3, 2023 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Alan Li: Moxa Acquired Initial Users Through Organic Educational TikTok Videos | Alan Li | Sep 12, 2023 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Li: Moxa received 30 to 40 NDAs on Acquire.com | Alan Li | Sep 12, 2023 | — |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Sanchez's current startup Educately raised over $2M and scaled to 50 employees | Joan Manuel Sanchez | Aug 29, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Studia could have reached $1M revenue by hiring five to ten people | Joan Manuel Sanchez | Aug 29, 2023 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Gazdecki advises founders to weigh closing probability against higher offer prices | Andrew Gazdecki | Aug 29, 2023 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Gazdecki advises founders to weigh closing probability against higher offer prices | Andrew Gazdecki | Aug 29, 2023 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Kim tested 50% transaction fees on his manual campus marketplace MVP | Josh Kim | Aug 15, 2023 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Gazdecki: High revenue seasonality is terrible for acquisition prospects | Andrew Gazdecki | Aug 15, 2023 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Kim: The Cubby eventually gave 100% of marketplace sales fees to students | Josh Kim | Aug 15, 2023 | Supported |
| $80M | “eighty million dollars” | Gazdecki: 98% of startup acquisitions are valued below $80 million | Andrew Gazdecki | Aug 15, 2023 | Supported |
| 98% | “98%” | Gazdecki: 98% of startup acquisitions are valued below $80 million | Andrew Gazdecki | Aug 15, 2023 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Gazdecki bootstrapped Bizness Apps to $10M ARR before selling to PE | Andrew Gazdecki | Aug 8, 2023 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Gazdecki: A two-person financial satire newsletter generates over $1M in profit | Andrew Gazdecki | Aug 8, 2023 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Gazdecki: 80% of founders sell their startup to build something new | Andrew Gazdecki | Aug 8, 2023 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Gazdecki: The average startup takes three to four years to reach $1M ARR | Andrew Gazdecki | Aug 8, 2023 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Molina tied his Tweet Hunter equity vesting to specific MRR milestones | JK Molina | Aug 8, 2023 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Molina tied his Tweet Hunter equity vesting to specific MRR milestones | JK Molina | Aug 8, 2023 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Molina tied his Tweet Hunter equity vesting to specific MRR milestones | JK Molina | Aug 8, 2023 | — |
| 100M | “hundred million” | No startup should ever go to zero because buyers want built products | Andrew Gazdecki | Aug 1, 2023 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Jeff Richards: Wolf Republic averaged a 75% growth rate over five years | Jeff Richards | Jul 25, 2023 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Jeff Richards retained 15 percent equity in Wolf Republic post-acquisition | Jeff Richards | Jul 25, 2023 | — |
| 2.1M | “2.1 million” | Scott: Leveraged podcast audience to raise $2.1M via crowdfunding | Jason Allen Scott | Jul 18, 2023 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 78% | “78%” | Scott: A Podcast Company operated at a 78% profit margin | Jason Allen Scott | Jul 18, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Alex Rainey's passport alert SaaS peaked at over $1,000 daily revenue | Alex Rainey | Jul 11, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Alex Rainey: Fine-tuning AI models can improve output quality up to 10x | Alex Rainey | Jul 11, 2023 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Alex Rainey: Fine-tuning AI models can improve output quality up to 10x | Alex Rainey | Jul 11, 2023 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Gazdecki: Over 90% of startup buyers request post-sale transition support | Andrew Gazdecki | Jul 11, 2023 | — |
| 6% | “six percent” | Bragg: Version two and new affiliates revived Potion's growth to 6% monthly | Noah Bragg | Jul 5, 2023 | — |
| 4× | “four X” | Gazdecki: Potion.so sold for roughly a 4x multiple | Andrew Gazdecki | Jul 5, 2023 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Skaalerud: Acquirers should expect to rewrite 20% to 40% of SaaS code | Kjael Skaalerud | Jun 27, 2023 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Skaalerud: Skaling Ventures targets an average 3x ARR multiple for acquisitions | Kjael Skaalerud | Jun 27, 2023 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Skaalerud: Skaling Ventures targets an average 3x ARR multiple for acquisitions | Kjael Skaalerud | Jun 27, 2023 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Skaalerud: Skaling Ventures targets an average 3x ARR multiple for acquisitions | Kjael Skaalerud | Jun 27, 2023 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Skaalerud: $500k-$1M SaaS acquisitions require a 90-day phased founder transition | Kjael Skaalerud | Jun 27, 2023 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Gazdecki: Slow Founder Communication Causes 90% of Stalled Acquisitions | Andrew Gazdecki | May 23, 2023 | — |
| 500% | “500%” | Gazdecki: Preparing Financials in Advance Boosts Acquisition Odds by 500% | Andrew Gazdecki | May 23, 2023 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Bardet retained a 10% equity stake in Clearly after its sale | Guillaume Bardet | May 3, 2023 | — |
| 2.5× | “2.5 X” | Jeanne listed MakeLogo.ai on Acquire.com at a 2.5x revenue multiple | Nico Jeanne | Apr 11, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Tabarnapp's first Shopify app gained 1,000 paying customers in four months | Derek Morin | Feb 7, 2023 | — |
| 92% | “92%” | Tabarnapp's flagship application generated 92% of the company's total revenue | Derek Morin | Feb 7, 2023 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Company Sold App Built by Unpaid Intern for $250K | Sam Lillicraft | Jan 24, 2023 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | JJ Englert built Bubble no-code systems processing 20 million monthly workflows | JJ Englert | Nov 29, 2022 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Amann: 90% of a startup's capital and focus goes to sales | Andrew Amann | Nov 22, 2022 | — |
| 11M | “a ten million” | McDannell raised on $10M valuation and sold pre-revenue at a discount | Christine McDaniel | Nov 15, 2022 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | Gazdecki: In-line startup valuations see 2x to 4x higher buyer interest | Andrew Gazdecki | Nov 8, 2022 | — |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Sidhu bought Stridist on MicroAcquire when it had flat $1,000 MRR | Sukh Sidhu | Sep 27, 2022 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Keeley: Acquiring a $400K business takes the same work as $4M | Colin Keeley | Sep 13, 2022 | — |
| 400K | “four hundred thousand” | Keeley: Acquiring a $400K business takes the same work as $4M | Colin Keeley | Sep 13, 2022 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | Keeley: Acquiring a $400K business takes the same work as $4M | Colin Keeley | Sep 13, 2022 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | Keeley: Verne typically values acquisitions using SDE and pays 1-4x ARR | Colin Keeley | Sep 13, 2022 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Keeley: Verne gave up convincing founders expecting 10x to 20x ARR multiples | Colin Keeley | Sep 13, 2022 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Gazdecki: Bootstrapping builds wealth while venture capital is a 1% lottery | Andrew Gazdecki | Sep 13, 2022 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Achard: Never skip formal escrow services in micro-startup acquisitions | Chris Achard | Sep 7, 2022 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Rathee: Founders should ignore early 1.5x to 2x lowball acquisition offers | Jaisal Rathee | Aug 30, 2022 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Gazdecki paid $150,000 for Bizness Apps legal fees at $1,000 hourly | Andrew Gazdecki | Aug 23, 2022 | — |
| 1% | “a percent” | Barlow & Williams charges a 0.5% flat fee with $10,000 minimum | Bill Barlow | Aug 23, 2022 | — |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Gazdecki sold Bizness Apps to a $10B PE firm at age 29 | Andrew Gazdecki | Aug 23, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Speiser sold Brax for over a 10x return in 18 months | Joe Speiser | Aug 16, 2022 | — |
| 70M | “seventy million” | LittleThings generated $70M revenue before Facebook algorithm changes destroyed it | Joe Speiser | Aug 16, 2022 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | LittleThings built 50 million Facebook followers before the platform revoked distribution | Joe Speiser | Aug 16, 2022 | Contradicted |
| $40M | “forty million dollars” | Startups that raised $40M will sell for $1M-$2M within 12 months | Joe Speiser | Aug 16, 2022 | Didn’t hold up |
| 1M | “a million” | Startups that raised $40M will sell for $1M-$2M within 12 months | Joe Speiser | Aug 16, 2022 | Didn’t hold up |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Speiser: Partner with Ramp and Brex to source distressed startup acquisitions | Joe Speiser | Aug 16, 2022 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Mark Davis: Interplay Services 15% of US Venture-Backed Startups | Mark Davis | Aug 2, 2022 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | Abousleiman: Shopify partner ecosystem generates 3-4x Shopify's platform revenue | Marc Abousleiman | Jul 26, 2022 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Kozinsky: Enduring Ventures owns 12 businesses, mostly from retiring owners | Sieva Kozinsky | Jul 19, 2022 | — |
| $25M | “twenty-five million dollars” | Kozinsky: UpCounsel raised around $20M to $25M from VCs | Sieva Kozinsky | Jul 19, 2022 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Kozinsky: Enduring Ventures targets 3x-5x cash flow multiples for acquisitions | Sieva Kozinsky | Jul 19, 2022 | — |
| $5M | “five million dollars” | Kozinsky: Enduring Ventures targets 3x-5x cash flow multiples for acquisitions | Sieva Kozinsky | Jul 19, 2022 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Kozinsky: Enduring Ventures targets 3x-5x cash flow multiples for acquisitions | Sieva Kozinsky | Jul 19, 2022 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Lobo: Bi-weekly webinars drove 60,000 subscribers and 2M YouTube views | Lloyd Lobo | Jul 12, 2022 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Lobo: Bi-weekly webinars drove 60,000 subscribers and 2M YouTube views | Lloyd Lobo | Jul 12, 2022 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Gazdecki: CEOs should only delegate every operational role past $10M ARR | Andrew Gazdecki | Jul 12, 2022 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Lobo: Hiring for tenure over trajectory turns startups into corporate incumbents | Lloyd Lobo | Jul 12, 2022 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Nassar: 50% of interested startup buyers refused to sign an NDA | Ramsey Nassar | Jun 21, 2022 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Balkhi: Awesome Motive's portfolio powers over 20 million websites | Syed Balkhi | Jun 13, 2022 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Gazdecki: 10x ARR Multiples Require at Least $10M in Revenue | Andrew Gazdecki | Jun 6, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Gazdecki: 10x ARR Multiples Require at Least $10M in Revenue | Andrew Gazdecki | Jun 6, 2022 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Acquiring small companies requires the same effort as much larger deals | Marty Balkema | May 31, 2022 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Horizen Capital targets B2B SaaS acquisitions between $500K and $5M ARR | Akil Jabbar | May 23, 2022 | — |
| 3% | “three percent” | Jabbar says Horizen requires sub-3% churn and $1,500 minimum LTV | Akil Jabbar | May 23, 2022 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Gazdecki: Public SaaS valuation multiples dropped from 20x to 8x ARR | Andrew Gazdecki | May 23, 2022 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight X” | Gazdecki: Public SaaS valuation multiples dropped from 20x to 8x ARR | Andrew Gazdecki | May 23, 2022 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Polychrome Capital seeks 50% or greater equity in B2B software companies | Greg Lazarus | May 16, 2022 | — |
| $3M | “three million dollars” | Polychrome Capital acquires SaaS companies with $50K to $3M in annual revenue | Greg Lazarus | May 16, 2022 | — |
| $300M | “three hundred million dollars” | Lazarus: Shopify application Returnly was successfully acquired for $300 million | Greg Lazarus | May 16, 2022 | Supported |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Chamness: Dura Software Targets $2M to $5M Software Business Acquisitions | Conor Jamnis | May 2, 2022 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Chamness: Dura Software Targets Low-Growth, High-Retention Software With Exiting Founders | Conor Jamnis | May 2, 2022 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Chamness: Dura Software Seeks Acquisition Targets With Over 70% Recurring Revenue | Conor Jamnis | May 2, 2022 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Kosarek: E-commerce merchants with under $10M revenue lack fast exit options | Frank Kosarek | Apr 25, 2022 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Kosarek: OpenStore requires $500K+ revenue and 50% US customers for acquisitions | Frank Kosarek | Apr 25, 2022 | — |
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