Mark Givko

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Mark Jivko is a software engineer and technical leader who builds, bootstraps, and sells micro-SaaS products. He is best known for creating Go Index Me!, an automated Google indexing tool that he launched and subsequently sold.

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Insight

Mark Givko: Bootstrapping fits business to life; VC stretches life around business

“Bootstrapping is more like building a business around your life. Whereas raising VC or P capital is more like stretching your life Around the business. At least that's how it feels to me.”

Mark Givko Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 7:43 How to Build a Profitable SaaS in 6 Months and Sell it in 5 Days

Opinion

Mark Givko argues AI should not ghostwrite social media in your voice

“The AI, the automation tool, will interact with social media on your behalf, but not to the point where it begins to write in your voice. I believe that's bad. You should be the one posting content on social media, but you should limit the amount of content yo…”

Mark Givko Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 18:47 How to Build a Profitable SaaS in 6 Months and Sell it in 5 Days

Insight

Acquirers valuing tech and moats pay higher multiples than cash-flow buyers

“Multiples are very subjective, so A person who's only interested in your business as a cash cow is going to buy for potentially less or three or two point something to three X your ARR and recurring revenue. But someone who's interested more in your tech stack…”

Mark Givko Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 14:41 How to Build a Profitable SaaS in 6 Months and Sell it in 5 Days

Insight

Buyers asking excessive pre-LOI questions often just research to replicate startups

“If people ask too many questions, especially before the letter of intent, They're usually not particularly serious about it. There is this trend, not only on acquire.com, on Flippa and other websites, where people pay the monthly queue, whatever, and go on the…”

Mark Givko Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 16:01 How to Build a Profitable SaaS in 6 Months and Sell it in 5 Days

Insight

GoIndex.me suffered churn because its lowest pricing tier offered too much capacity

“Most people don't have huge websites, so it's quite rare to see a website that has more than, let's say, 5000 pages. That, that's a large number. And the tool itself, even on the lowest tier, so the cheapest option, indexed 6000 pages per month. So that's such…”

Mark Givko Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 6:21 How to Build a Profitable SaaS in 6 Months and Sell it in 5 Days

Disclosure

Mark Givko built, grew, and sold GoIndex.me within seven months

“I built it in 30 days, launched it grew it with ads for another four or six months. And then sold it through acquire.com.”

Mark Givko Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 8:15 How to Build a Profitable SaaS in 6 Months and Sell it in 5 Days

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Mark Givko closed the GoIndex.me acquisition five days after the initial conversation

“Monday we had our first conversation and by Friday it was completely sold. The cash hit my bank account, the username and password, everything was transferred.”

Mark Givko Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 11:01 How to Build a Profitable SaaS in 6 Months and Sell it in 5 Days

Insight

Founders should fully isolate technical infrastructure before listing a startup for sale

“If you're preparing to sell your company, make sure everything is completely isolated. So ideally you just hand out the username and the password and it's all transferred. It's done.”

Mark Givko Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 12:02 How to Build a Profitable SaaS in 6 Months and Sell it in 5 Days

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GoIndex.me had 150 active customers and 500 lifetime users at acquisition

“About 150. So it was a relatively small website. It was growing steadily. Yeah, so that's the number. Approximately 150. In fact, the total number of users lifetime was around 500.”

Mark Givko Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 5:55 How to Build a Profitable SaaS in 6 Months and Sell it in 5 Days

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GoIndex.me acquired its first 15 customers by ranking third on Product Hunt

“I just listed it on Product Hunt. It got featured, and then it received the badge for the third best product of the day. I don't know the exact terminology. They have a ranking or something. And that's where the first 10 or 15 customers came from.”

Mark Givko Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 7:08 How to Build a Profitable SaaS in 6 Months and Sell it in 5 Days

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
How to Build a Profitable SaaS in 6 Months and Sell it in 5 Days	Sep 25, 2024	16m

Mark Givko

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