Martin Webb

15 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 20, 2024 by Martin Webb · across every show →

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Feb 20, 2024 positive

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Webb: Target Private Equity Rollup Sectors for Solo Founder Exits

“If you're looking to sell, if you're like me, you're a solo founder, you've got an idea for an app where you want to build an app, build something in an industry where the equity companies are looking to buy software, right? Because these companies can come in…”

Martin Webb Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 7:59 Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%

Feb 20, 2024 neutral

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Webb: I Built and Sold Two Other Businesses Alongside Tudodesk

“I sold the company that I owned that, that helped me build the app, or that inspired me to build the app, so I sold that company. During that period, I built another business and sold that one as well.”

Martin Webb Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 16:20 Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%

Feb 20, 2024 bullish

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Webb: Tudodesk Ultimately Sold at a Multiple Well Above 3.5x Revenue

“Yeah, the revenue was up. Number of customers was up. The product was far better developed and the multiple was way higher.”

Martin Webb Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 11:57 Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%

Feb 20, 2024

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Webb: Tudodesk Charged $200-$300 Monthly on Quarterly Billing Cycles

“We were billing customers quarterly, right? Our biggest thing is we bill customers quarterly. It would work out between 203 hundred dollars per month to use our platform, and that would be for an average size repair business or workshop.”

Martin Webb Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 3:27 Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%

Feb 20, 2024 positive

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Webb: Tudodesk Sold for a Seven-Figure Sum Over $1 Million

“Yeah. It's like, yeah, seven figure number. It's over the million. Yes, Nathan.”

Martin Webb Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 15:53 Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%

Feb 20, 2024

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Webb: Tudodesk Shifted From Job-Based to Purely Per-Seat Pricing

“Initially we were doing it on number of jobs that were running. And as we grew, as we moved through that, we now do it sheerly on number of users, how many people are using the system. So within a repair business, that could be the front desk staff, that could…”

Martin Webb Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 3:52 Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%

Feb 20, 2024 neutral

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Webb: 200 Customers is the Solo Founder Limit for Complex SaaS

“So with something like to do desk doing it on your own with a product like that, it's a big product, a lot of support. Probably like 200 customers would be the max you could run at successfully on your own.”

Martin Webb Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 6:47 Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%

Feb 20, 2024

Assertion Partly supported

Webb: I Ported Sega Out Run to the Commodore 64

“I wrote numerous number one titles in the UK. And then in 1987, I'm famous for being the kid that did the Sega Outland conversion for the CBM 64 worldwide, which was at the time the biggest selling game in the world.”

Martin Webb Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 1:39 Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%

Feb 20, 2024 positive

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Webb: Track Enterprise Valuation Instead of Monthly Cash Flow

“If you're going to build a business and you're looking to sell or just looking to build it, then too many founders are always going to look at their monthly revenue, what they're bringing in, what they're spending, what's left, what effort they're putting in. …”

Martin Webb Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 11:10 Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%

Feb 20, 2024

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Webb: I Owned 100% of Tudodesk as a Sole Operator

“I owned a hundred percent of the company. I was the only person involved in the company. I built the product, sold the product, onboarded the product, managed the servers, did the marketing, did everything.”

Martin Webb Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 12:11 Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%

Feb 20, 2024 neutral

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Webb: I Build Profitable Businesses Solo With Zero Spending Before Selling

“I'm a solo founder. So when I start a business, I do it from a table. I invest nothing. I spend nothing. I do everything myself. And I take it from infancy idea right up to running profitable business. And then I look to sell it. And I've done this too many ti…”

Martin Webb Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 5:40 Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%

Feb 20, 2024

Disclosure

Webb: I Rejected an Early Tudodesk Acquisition Offer at 3.5x ARR

“So the first one that I rejected, the revenue model was, I think, 3.5 times my annual revenue.”

Martin Webb Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 9:05 Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%

Feb 20, 2024 positive

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Webb: Struggling SaaS Founders Should Switch to Manual Phone Sales

“There are anomalies where that can happen, but for most of the founders that are watching the show that might feel they're struggling, it is user by user, and you really do want to be on the phone. If you're not picking up the phone, trying to get your users I…”

Martin Webb Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 12:51 Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%

Feb 20, 2024

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Webb: Tudodesk Was Acquired by a Major US Private Equity Firm

“So I sold it to one of America's biggest equity companies.”

Martin Webb Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 7:30 Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%

Feb 20, 2024 positive

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Webb: You Need Fewer Users Than You Think for Large Valuations

“And what I found out, and the lesson that I've now learned, is you don't need as many users as what you think you need to get a big valuation.”

Martin Webb Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 13:35 Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%

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