Tabarnapp sold a doomed side application for $40,000 on MicroAcquire
Derek Morin · Startup Acquisition Stories with Derek Morin and Radu Bogdan, Founders of Tabarnapp · Feb 7, 2023 · at 9:49
Derek Morin, co-founder of Tabarnapp, discusses selling an unmaintained secondary application on MicroAcquire before pursuing the sale of their main portfolio.
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“The smaller transaction of 40,000 US or something like that on microacquire was like, for us, more like a bonus. We didn't expect that. We were about to, I mean, sorry for the person who purchased that, that listens to the podcast, but we were about to shut it down because we didn't have, Yeah, we used to be 10 people in the company. We went down to only three people, so we didn't have anyone to actually be able to know how the app works. So we needed to get rid of it.”
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