Bakour: Stock Alarm Acquisition Took Three and a Half Months
Yahia Bakour · Startup Acquisition Stories with Yahia Bakour, Co-founder of Stock Alarm · Jan 9, 2024 · at 18:38
Yahia Bakour, co-founder of Stock Alarm, reflects on the timeline of selling his financial alerting startup to an acquirer via Acquire.com.
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“Like I think an under like start to finish and one where I started looking seriously was like three and a half months.”
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