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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…”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”