Bennett: Userfeed generated cash flow for years and sold for six figures
Landon Bennett · Startup Acquisition Stories with Landon Bennett Founder of Userfeed · Nov 15, 2021 · at 15:04
Landon Bennett discusses selling his startup Userfeed on MicroAcquire while concurrently operating his main software business.
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“We had cashflow from it for multiple years and then we just sold it for six figures. Like that's a pretty good outcome for during that time, during that timeframe, our other business like grew, you know, hundreds of percent.”
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