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Yardini: Acquiring an Existing Business Defeats Building From Scratch
“I think I would definitely Recommend people to acquire an existing business, then start something from scratch, because it takes forever to build something from scratch.”
Yardini: Small Business Buyers Should Prioritize Competitor Validation Over Profitability
“I don't think you should be looking at profitability of the business you are purchasing. I think you should really look at the product market fit. You should really say, okay, can I grow this business to at least three X, four X, five X and just look at the co…”
Yardini: Enterprise Marketing Experience Proved Useless for B2C SaaS Growth
“None of the marketing expertise that I had working at large scale enterprise B to B companies was useful to what I was doing with my company.”
Yardini: Corporate Employees Seeking Autonomy Should Avoid Buying Franchises
“First I would say if you're not thrilled with your job that's already a sign that you wouldn't like, telling people telling you how to do your job and you should definitely not look at franchises because that's their whole model. They tell you how to do your j…”
Yardini: Buying Software From Purely Technical Founders Is an Ideal Fit
“If you find engineers, like technical people selling the project because they can't, marketing or sales is not their expertise. And if you are, if you have that expertise, absolutely. That's a fantastic fit.”
Yardini: EssayGrader Reached $500K ARR in the Current Fiscal Year
“For this fiscal year, we are just at about half a million ARR.”
Yardini Projects EssayGrader Will Surpass $1M ARR By Year's End
“We are projecting just over a million dollars in recurring revenue.”
EssayGrader Generated Just $5K MRR When Yardini Acquired It
“When we bought the business, we were Doing like a few thousand dollars a month, probably like five, 5000 or something like that.”
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's Personal Business Acquisition Budget Was Only $200,000
“I didn't have a lot of budget, like I had just like a couple 100,000 that I could spend buying a business”
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”
Yardini Acquired EssayGrader on Acquire.com in Just 30 Days
“I saw SAGrader listed on acquire.com. SAGrader is the name of our company, SAGrader AI. And based on my background as a teacher entrepreneur I was like, this works. I understand exactly the pain point as a greater is solving for teachers. And we went and purch…”