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Seen operated exclusively on Lovable until it was acquired
“This was completely vibe-coded never made its way out of lovable, which, like, I think looking back on it now since the platform's been acquired and sold, they've moved it to, I think it's like Vercel like a platform that's actually more customizable.”
Seen acquired 22 customers from four organic Facebook group posts
“I think we made four posts across across, across different groups and had roughly 22 customers that we acquired from those four posts.”
An AI SaaS for the door hinge industry generates nearly $200k MRR
“I have a business partner that I'm building another SaaS platform with, and he has a friend, they're doing almost 200,000 dollars MRR which is crazy. And they're spending heavy amount of money on, on marketing, but they're in the hinges, like door hinges space…”
GoRecover users recovered 20% of abandoned carts via WhatsApp
“And our customers were recovering about 20% of their abandoned carts.”
Simmons: Apreva Evaluates Condition of Nearly 100M US Properties via AI
“And what they have built is they have built an ability to go through and use AI vision models. To go through and evaluate the property condition of close to a hundred million properties in the United States.”
Simmons: Apreva acquisition retained all original engineering talent
“We were able to go and retain all the talent that had built and lived this problem for the last two years”
Matt Ali: Many real estate investors avoid buying properties on Zillow
“Like, cause a lot of real estate investors, they don't really buy stuff off of Zillow. Right. So they're looking for, Specific things that are off the market.”
Acquirer Napkin Previously Bought a Design Subscription Business at Lower Price Points
“They actually purchased a subscription business years ago design business, but at a different, a little bit different scale of price point. I think the price point of the business they had purchased before was about a, you know, 100 to a thousand dollar a mont…”
Sandeep Jangala: Sold fitness and nutrition platform to Apollo
“Luckily we got an opportunity to work with Upasna Garo there at Apollo. We went on to sell the company to them.”
Yummy Bee reports an approximate 60% repeat customer rate
“Like we have almost 60% repeat ratios at the cafe, right? People come back again and again.”
Gazdecki: Stuart Fott holds the record for most acquisitions on Acquire
“I do believe you own the record for most acquisitions on Acquire. I haven't met anybody with as many as you.”
Fott scaled a SaaS to $100k ARR and sold for $500k
“And so I went out kind of using my same playbook went and acquired about a hundred K and ARR and then listed it on acquire. And I think within like maybe 30 to 45 days sold that business for 500 K and, you know, it was a nice transaction and then kind of just …”
Fott: Micro-SaaS exits typically take 30–45 days and 20–30 buyer calls
“Usually it'll take me between 30 and 45 days from listing to closing, and then usually for each acquisition, I'll probably jump on, you know, 20 to 30 calls.”
MainStreet scaled to eight figures in revenue while remaining completely bootstrapped.
“Like, it's a business that's scaled to, you know, eight figures in revenue, and it's profitable, and doing really well.”
Richards: Hiring Cheaper Account Manager Saved $5K but Cost $100K in Revenue
“And there was another time I hired a really bad account manager that lost us like a 100,000 dollars worth of revenue in a year. So by me taking the slightly cheaper option of the bad account manager that saved me like 500, like 5000 bucks over the year, it cos…”
Danilov: SwiftNet went from zero to launch in under 10 days
“Yeah, get yourself a little educated, but essentially from zero to launch, it was less than probably 10 days.”
Danilov: SwiftNet was acquired just 30 days after initial buyer contact
“From the day of the first message to close, it was 30 days.”
Elgazar: SuperDev received five LOIs within a week of listing
“So I think I listed it beginning of August something like that, maybe a bit less than the beginning of August. And then like a week later, I've got like, Five LOIs.”
Elgazar: SuperDev's acquisition closed in roughly a week and a half
“I know the answer, but like a week and a half or something, something very, very fast. Like it was really fast.”
Khan: ChatFi MRR grew from $5k to $20k in two months
“Within two to three months I remember the first month it was, the MRR was around 5000 dollars, then the second one it was around 20,000 dollars, then the third month it was going exponentially”
Khan: ChatFi hit one million users within one year
“Within, within one year, we hit one million users.”
Khan: Persistent memory differentiated ChatFi from early AI competitors
“And the one of the major things that differentiate us from the other competitors, it was the character memory. So actually in the AI world, If you look at the one to two years back, it was very tough to hold the memory. For example, if you talk to a character,…”
Carroll: Alpine Rings Grew From $300k Revenue to $2.4M Run Rate Before Sale
“I think at the time it was making 300,000 in revenue and then at the time we sold it, we were at a run rate of, like, 2.4 million.”
Carroll: Custom engraving drove 30% to 40% revenue boost for Alpine Rings
“But honestly, the biggest unlock for the business is custom engraving. So we offered, we weren't offering custom engraving on the rings, and then once we offered it, we picked up an incremental revenue of like 30 to 40%.”
Carroll: Alpine Rings buyer paid all cash at closing, zero seller financing
“So they had all cash at closing instead of any seller financing after that.”
Yardini Projects EssayGrader Will Surpass $1M ARR By Year's End
“We are projecting just over a million dollars in recurring revenue.”
Yardini: Y Combinator Funded Two EssayGrader Competitors in Past Eight Months
“Actually funny enough, now two companies, Y Combinator are just back that are doing very similar to what we are doing in the last six to eight months. So that shows that we have like almost a year and a half head start Compared to these companies.”
Yardini Claims EssayGrader Captures 60% of AI Grading Search Traffic
“We rank number one in the category for all high intent keywords. We capture about 60% of the traffic that is on the web looking for AI grading simply for essays.”
Yardini: Nearly All 30 Initial School Board Contracts Have Renewed
“Around this time last year, we did like a good 20 to 30 school boards that purchased it, and pretty much every single one of them has renewed, renewed their contracts”
Schwab: Virtual assistants were not used for local businesses before 2016
“People had used VAs for Amazon stores and other purposes before, but no one had really used them for a local business.”
Innova Local buyer previously scaled IT staffing agencies to $20M-$40M
“So he'd had the experience of taking a company from my current size. To 20, 30, forty million a year. So he'd actually had very specific industry experience of doing this just in the IT industry instead of in the virtual assistant agency world.”
Schwab signed LOI to sell Innova Local after three weeks
“Such that after just about three weeks, we'd signed an LOI together.”
Schwab reduced daily workload to five minutes for his cleaning company
“I got running my cleaning company down to less than five minutes a day and my VA company to about an hour a day, sometimes less.”
Schwab pioneered the remote local cleaning business model in 2016
“I was kind of the pioneer way back in 2016 of what's called the remote local cleaning business model now.”
Lee: Required onboarding calls significantly improved six-month user retention
“That wound up being really beneficial from a retention standpoint of the users that signed up, paid, And then booked an onboarding call after we're far more likely to be with us six months later.”
Lee: Pricing below recommended asking price yielded sight-unseen term sheets immediately
“We listed a little bit below the recommended amount and we wound up just getting inundated with buyers. And so we got a number of term sheets within the first week sight unseen people without even talking to us and put ourselves in a good competitive process w…”
Gazdecki: Founder's Divided Attention Is the Most Common Reason to Sell
“That's actually the most common reason for founders that I personally work with that are looking to sell. They are literally already working on something else, and so it makes sense.”
Lear: LeadGen App Took 15-20 Buyer Calls Before Finding Its Acquirer
“How many calls did we have? Probably 15 to 20 unique interested buyers. How many serious people? Six, seven maybe. And then it narrowed down we got one offer in, in January. One, we were in a due diligence phase, and that, Didn't go through. And then the final…”
Pekibar: Before and After closed sale on Acquire.com in about 10 days
“I probably talked to a dozen people, a dozen interested individuals like three, four were very serious. And yeah, we closed the deal in like 10 days, I guess.”
Cooke: Barack Obama used his music for his presidential campaign
“But yeah, stuff on the history channel, science channel, NBC Obama actually used my music for his presidential campaign.”
Cooke: Music software industry has at most 10,000 companies
“There's about 10,000 companies in the entire industry at most, and I would say if the top 50% in sales is probably attributed to maybe like a hundred companies.”
Pulse had 360,000 users and over 100 B2B clients at acquisition
“So on the B to B side, I think there was over a hundred anything. And then on the B to C side the actual platform had grown to around about 360,000 users in like the database with around a thousand to 2000 daily active users within the desktop app.”
Pluto's three-entity structure required two asset purchases and one share purchase
“It created a lot of legal sort of delays in terms of due diligence, because it was basically three companies that needed to be assessed. And it was two asset purchases. Those were okay. Those were a lot quicker. And then the one share purchase, which took a lo…”
Rosen: Nomad Cloud generated thousands monthly on one hour of weekly effort
“We spent like an hour a week on it towards like the last few months, and you're still making a couple thousand dollars a month on it, so it's pretty good ROI.”
Domofsky: ForMJ Social's Pre-Sale Revenue Surge Was Project-Based, Not Recurring
“When I first signed up with Acquire and started having meetings, I had a three-month period where revenue had a pretty big bump and the way the business was structured, it looked like it was going to continue to bump like that, but it was all project-based wor…”