Acquire.com

5 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 28, 2023 by Rob Walling · said 45 times in 13 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Everything said about Acquire.com, oldest first

Feb 28, 2023 positive
Opinion
Walling names the four major brokerages for buying bootstrapped SaaS companies
“Quiet Lights, Email List, Effie International, Empire Flippers, Acquire.com, that used to be Micro Acquire, and those are kind of, I think, the big four in our space.”
Rob Walling Feb 28, 2023 ▶ 15:41 Episode 650 | Building vs. Buying a SaaS, Day Job Constraints, an...
Mar 12, 2024 positive
Opinion
Walling: Traditional business brokers vet acquisitions better than Acquire.com
“In addition, these days, personally, I would buy through a broker, Quiet Light, FE International, Empire Flippers. They tend to do, I think, a bit more vetting than Micro Acquire.”
Rob Walling Mar 12, 2024 ▶ 21:19 Episode 704 | Landing Pages, Buying a SaaS, the Right Tech Stack,...
Aug 27, 2024 negative
Insight
Flipping micro-SaaS apps prevents founders from building breakout products
“Literally, what they do is they build a tiny SaaS product, and they give it a couple months, and then they sell it for peanuts on microacquire.com, I think it's just acquire.com now, and just move on to the next, and they keep hoping that one of those will blo…”
Iran Galperin Aug 27, 2024 ▶ 20:34 Episode 728 | Bootstrapping Gymdesk to a More Than $32.5M Exit
Apr 22, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Hewitt: AI wrappers are short-term flips, not two-year businesses
“I see these wrappers as like a quick hit. Like if you want to go make a hundred grand, that's about the easiest way I can imagine is you go wrap Claude and you do a thing and you go make it big and you sell it on Acquire.com at 15 grand a month, you know, doub…”
Craig Hewitt Apr 22, 2025 ▶ 24:00 Episode 771 | What Changes As You Grow, AI Agents, Patents, and M...
Feb 17, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Walling: A $10k/month bootstrapped startup is worth hundreds of thousands
“If I was doing 10 K a month and someone wanted to join, Man, they would need to, I mean, that's a valuable business. Just think of what you could sell for that for through like Quiet Light Brokerage or Acquire.com. It's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
Rob Walling Feb 17, 2026 ▶ 16:00 Episode 820 | When to Quit Your Day Job, A.I. Feasibility Risk, a...
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