Minh-Phuc Tran

Founder & Software Engineer · 1 appearance on the record.

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Minh-Phuc Tran is a software engineer and indie maker known for bootstrapping and exiting micro-SaaS products. He created Queue.so and sold it on Acquire.com in 2022, subsequently developing tools including PDFVector and ChatAcademia.

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

Opinion

Tran: Many Acquire.com buyers lack clear purchase intent and waste founder time

“I think like mail acquire has a lot of buyers, but a lot of them also do not really know if they want to buy something or do not really know what they want to buy. So they just like try to ask every product and get as much information as they think they can.”

Minh-Phuc Tran Feb 14, 2023 ▶ 13:54 Startup Acquisition Stories with Minh-Phuc Tran, Founder of Queue.so

Disclosure

Tran: Platform friction with Notion prompted decision to sell Queue.so

“So I used to think that, like, I will spend most of my time working on Notion-specific products because, like, I did that for almost a year, and then a lot of people know about that, but then I did launch another product, and I had a little of an issue with No…”

Minh-Phuc Tran Feb 14, 2023 ▶ 2:32 Startup Acquisition Stories with Minh-Phuc Tran, Founder of Queue.so

Insight

Tran: Serious startup buyers ask fewer questions upfront and research independently

“Only the one that, like, didn't really ask a lot are the ones that actually gonna be serious about the product. So usually they know, and they did their research”

Minh-Phuc Tran Feb 14, 2023 ▶ 13:43 Startup Acquisition Stories with Minh-Phuc Tran, Founder of Queue.so

Disclosure

Tran: Listed Queue.so at 7x to 8x ARR multiple on Acquire.com

“Like I needed to come up with the asking price, so like how much multiples of the ARR that I should ask for, and then I did a bunch of research, and then I asked a bunch of people, and then I come up with like seven or eight multiplies of the annual revenue, a…”

Minh-Phuc Tran Feb 14, 2023 ▶ 4:54 Startup Acquisition Stories with Minh-Phuc Tran, Founder of Queue.so

Disclosure

Tran finished Queue.so due diligence in two days with one call

“For me, when like, I think it was, it's done within two days. Like, yeah, like we had only one. Yeah, we had only one con. And then I did one video recording and then that's it. So like the day after we just finished everything.”

Minh-Phuc Tran Feb 14, 2023 ▶ 10:43 Startup Acquisition Stories with Minh-Phuc Tran, Founder of Queue.so

Disclosure

Tran: Queue.so acquisition payments were split into staged asset installments

“We decided to break it into two payments, two installments. So the first half, he will pay, and then after I get that first half, I will transfer the assets of the company to him, and then The last half of the installment, we will point that into three differe…”

Minh-Phuc Tran Feb 14, 2023 ▶ 11:19 Startup Acquisition Stories with Minh-Phuc Tran, Founder of Queue.so

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Tran: Building in public on Twitter drove Queue.so's first customers

“Mostly mostly by building in public on Twitter. So back then I was just like tweeting about, I'm building this tool is help you to like scheduling tweets directly in Notion. And there's like a lot of people using Notion on Twitter and are excited to try a new …”

Minh-Phuc Tran Feb 14, 2023 ▶ 1:57 Startup Acquisition Stories with Minh-Phuc Tran, Founder of Queue.so

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Startup Acquisition Stories with Minh-Phuc Tran, Founder of Queue.so	Feb 14, 2023	10m

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