David Sabara

Head of Marketing, ABsmartly · 1 appearance on the record.

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David Sorbara founded Barkley HQ, a bootstrapped SaaS and client relationship management tool designed for pet groomers, which he sold via Acquire.com in May 2023. Following the exit, he joined the experimentation platform startup ABsmartly as Head of Marketing.

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

Disclosure

Sorbara: Multiple acquisition offers for Barkley HQ were identical

“Cause a lot of the offers were the exact same.”

David Sabara Sep 26, 2023 ▶ 11:11 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Sorbara, Founder of Barkley HQ

Insight

Sorbara: Track a P&L from day one to streamline future acquisitions

“My advice for any founder, whether you want to sell your business or you just want to have a business and run a business day one, you open up an Excel sheet and you start tracking with a P and L. Cause this is going to allow you to track your income, your expe…”

David Sabara Sep 26, 2023 ▶ 13:36 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Sorbara, Founder of Barkley HQ

Disclosure

Sorbara: Barkley HQ ran for four and a half years before acquisition

“And that was the SaaS business that I have been working on for probably about the last four and a half years which was recently acquired in May, 2020,”

David Sabara Sep 26, 2023 ▶ 0:47 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Sorbara, Founder of Barkley HQ

Disclosure

Sorbara: Barkley HQ was started with the end goal of getting acquired

“I kind of started the business with Always wanting the end goal to be getting acquired.”

David Sabara Sep 26, 2023 ▶ 8:18 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Sorbara, Founder of Barkley HQ

Disclosure

Sorbara: Plans to acquire and scale a pre-revenue software business next

“I think I want to acquire a smaller business, maybe something pre-revenue and then see if I can apply my skills to it, to build it and then sell it again. But coming up with the idea is the hard part. So that's kind of why I want to find something that's Someo…”

David Sabara Sep 26, 2023 ▶ 16:55 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Sorbara, Founder of Barkley HQ

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Startup Acquisition Stories with David Sorbara, Founder of Barkley HQ	Sep 26, 2023	9m

David Sabara

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