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Marc Abousleiman

Principal, Further Global Capital Management · 1 appearance on the record.

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Marc Abousleiman is an investor with Further Global Capital Management and a former analyst at The Raine Group, holding degrees from Harvard College and Harvard Business School. He co-founded Appregator, a platform focused on acquiring, scaling, and managing Shopify apps and e-commerce micro-SaaS products.

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Assertion Supported
Abousleiman: Shopify partner ecosystem generates 3-4x Shopify's platform revenue
“I think the partner ecosystem makes like three or four times more revenue than Shopify itself.”
Marc Abousleiman Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 15:03 Startup Acquisition Stories with Marc Abousleiman - Co-Founder & CEO at Appregator

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

Insight
Abousleiman: Lower Ad Returns Make Direct Customer Communication Imperative in DTC
“In the new reality of DTC today, it's really difficult to get the same return on ad spend that you used to get. And it's really imperative to have a channel to communicate with your customers one-on-one to be able to like personalize commerce.”
Marc Abousleiman Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 2:39 Startup Acquisition Stories with Marc Abousleiman - Co-Founder & CEO at Appregator
Opinion
Abousleiman: Consumers Prefer Texting and Will Stop Opening Emails
“Most people want to text these days. They don't want an email. They aren't going to open their emails anymore.”
Marc Abousleiman Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 3:04 Startup Acquisition Stories with Marc Abousleiman - Co-Founder & CEO at Appregator
Insight
Abousleiman: Rushing a SaaS sale triggers buyer suspicion of hidden problems
“Whenever someone says like, I want to offload this really quickly, like this needs to be done ASAP, kind of like Raises its suspicions for me, just because it's like how, you know, how quickly is quickly? Like, why do you want to get it done so quickly? You've…”
Marc Abousleiman Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 9:53 Startup Acquisition Stories with Marc Abousleiman - Co-Founder & CEO at Appregator
Insight
Abousleiman: Conversion and bundling apps have durable ROI during downturns
“Fulfillment solutions or anything that'll like increase conversion rates. Maybe it's like a bundling app or something like that. Those tend to have pretty clear measurable ROIs. And so I would, I'd be hard pressed to find a merchant who's like, oh, you know, t…”
Marc Abousleiman Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 12:42 Startup Acquisition Stories with Marc Abousleiman - Co-Founder & CEO at Appregator
Disclosure
Appregator: Shopify checkout functionality updates are our main acquisition focus
“There's a lot of like new and exciting things, especially with the updates that Shopify pushed to its checkout functionalities that, you know, are Right in the middle of our focus right now”
Marc Abousleiman Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 13:07 Startup Acquisition Stories with Marc Abousleiman - Co-Founder & CEO at Appregator
Assertion Supported
Abousleiman: Shopify partner ecosystem generates 3-4x Shopify's platform revenue
“I think the partner ecosystem makes like three or four times more revenue than Shopify itself.”
Marc Abousleiman Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 15:03 Startup Acquisition Stories with Marc Abousleiman - Co-Founder & CEO at Appregator
Disclosure
Abousleiman: Appregator targets an acquisition every one to two months
“I think our target is probably to be doing like an acquisition every month or every other month.”
Marc Abousleiman Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 20:28 Startup Acquisition Stories with Marc Abousleiman - Co-Founder & CEO at Appregator
Insight
Abousleiman: Clean financial metrics significantly shorten acquisition diligence
“And so for folks out there who might be thinking of selling their app, like having really good metrics and financials in place just makes life easier for people who want to take it over for buyers to examine it, because the more you have to dig and figure out,…”
Marc Abousleiman Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 4:37 Startup Acquisition Stories with Marc Abousleiman - Co-Founder & CEO at Appregator
Insight
Abousleiman: Shopify Ecosystem Standardizes Due Diligence Data
“It's pretty straightforward because of the fact that we're only focused on the Shopify space. The things that you want to look for become pretty standardized, right? Like we'll get access to someone's Shopify partner dashboard and they do a great job just kind…”
Marc Abousleiman Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 7:07 Startup Acquisition Stories with Marc Abousleiman - Co-Founder & CEO at Appregator
Insight
Abousleiman: Founders must document processes to make themselves non-critical for exits
“Document your code and document everything you're doing, because it might make sense in your head. And you might feel like you're slowing down by just writing down all the steps that needs to, you know, you need to do to run your business. But the reality is i…”
Marc Abousleiman Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 8:28 Startup Acquisition Stories with Marc Abousleiman - Co-Founder & CEO at Appregator

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Startup Acquisition Stories with Marc Abousleiman - Co-Founder & CEO at Appregator Jul 26, 2022 14m
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