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Daniel Ch

Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Legit Check By Ch · 2 appearances on the record.

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Daniel Ch is a bootstrapped tech entrepreneur who co-founded Legit Check By Ch, an authentication service for luxury goods and sneakers. He also created the Notion website builder Simple.ink and operates digital products under CH Group.

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5 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 5 disclosures · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 5 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Daniel argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Everything Daniel Ch said on Startup Acquisition Stories that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Daniel Ch: The best way to sell a company is not needing to
“The best way to sell your company is to not have to sell your company, So if you keep on going without selling it, you're perfectly fine.”
Daniel Ch Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 19:47 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch, Founder of SimpleInk
Disclosure
Daniel Ch: I would accept a lower valuation from a trustworthy buyer
“I would even go as far as saying that I would at any moment choose somebody with, you know, a lower multiple, but, or, you know, maybe a lower valuation, but somebody that I know is a good person, as opposed to the other way around”
Daniel Ch Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 27:39 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch, Founder of SimpleInk
Opinion
Daniel Ch: Notion's aesthetic appeal drives user demand for Notion websites
“Notion is very aesthetic. It's very hard to make it look ugly, and it turns out people want to build websites out of that.”
Daniel Ch Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 1:04 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch, Founder of SimpleInk
What-if
Daniel Ch: SimpleInk's growth required the Notion tailwind
“So I don't think we would have gotten the growth we've had or the, yeah, the number of users and, you know, the support and access to all these people, which wasn't for notion.”
Daniel Ch Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 3:20 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch, Founder of SimpleInk
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Daniel Ch: Simple.ink acquired its first users via discounted annual pre-orders
“We were selling a pre-order, so I think we had a pre-order for something like Six dollars a month, and when we launched, it was 12 dollars a month, so we had, like you would pay for a year upfront and get 50% off, and that's how we got our first users”
Daniel Ch Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 7:39 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch, Founder of SimpleInk
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Daniel Ch: Simple.ink validated market demand using a mockup video before launch
“For us, I just made a simple preview of the app, it wasn't even actually the app, it was a bit of a, kind of like the iPhone demos back in the day, it was a bit like a movie of the no-code app, I made it To look like simple.ink, but in turn, I knew that when w…”
Daniel Ch Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 7:54 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch, Founder of SimpleInk
Disclosure
Daniel Ch acquires feedback and lead collection SaaS Emojics
“It's called emojics, emojics.com. It's an online feedback tool. as a customer, you embedded either on your website or in your emails and your users get a emoji scale. They use that to give you some feedback and you also do lead generation or email collection.”
Daniel Ch Jan 14, 2022 ▶ 4:14 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch - Founder of Simple.ink
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Daniel Ch: Escrow.com failed with Wise, so we used Epik instead
“Escrow.com wasn't working with my TransferWise, which is now called Wise US bank account. We settled for Epic. That's with a K, Epic.com. They have a registrar as well, and their escrow service worked brilliantly.”
Daniel Ch Jan 14, 2022 ▶ 11:02 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch - Founder of Simple.ink
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Daniel Ch: Simple.ink drives up to 400,000 monthly visitors via SEO
“In my main company, we reached three, 400,000 unique users a month through 95% SEO.”
Daniel Ch Jan 14, 2022 ▶ 14:26 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch - Founder of Simple.ink
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Daniel Ch: Emojics seller granted immediate Stripe and ChartMogul access
“What the seller did was immediately, I, so I asked for a bit of info and they've given me access to Google analytics, to chart mogul, to stripe. So I could instantly see through, through their guts, so to speak. I saw every transaction.”
Daniel Ch Jan 14, 2022 ▶ 5:30 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch - Founder of Simple.ink
Disclosure
Daniel Ch: Structured Emojics Acquisition as All-Cash Upfront Deal
“And the deal was all cash upfront because let me see. It just felt right given, I think the business one was undervalued and I believe the seller believed that as well.”
Daniel Ch Jan 14, 2022 ▶ 9:19 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch - Founder of Simple.ink
Disclosure
Daniel Ch targets $100k-$200k ARR for Emojics in short to medium term
“Hence my answer is I'm looking to get it to 200 K ARR. If this person, Adit is joining me. So a hundred each or a hundred K for I'm going to say myself, but it's actually ourselves, myself and my brother, because we are partners. So either one or the two, this…”
Daniel Ch Jan 14, 2022 ▶ 21:00 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch - Founder of Simple.ink
Disclosure
Daniel Ch: Launching podcast to publicly share detailed acquisition metrics
“When I made this acquisition and I announced it, I mean a bit before I said, I want to make a podcast where I share Everything, all the numbers, monthly spreadsheet with revenue, number of users, CAC, LTV, whatever, even my ROI percentage. So, so how far I am …”
Daniel Ch Jan 14, 2022 ▶ 25:32 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch - Founder of Simple.ink

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Statements about Daniel Ch, by other people (1)

Assertion Supported
Gazdecki: SimpleInk was recently acquired for a six-figure sum
“I'm here with Daniel, the founder of Simple Inc, who recently got acquired for six figures.”
Andrew Gazdecki Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 0:25 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch, Founder of SimpleInk

Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch, Founder of SimpleInk Oct 10, 2023 19m
Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch - Founder of Simple.ink Jan 14, 2022 14m
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