Hosted by Acquire.com · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 165 episodes
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Get the inside look at how startup founders and entrepreneurs used Acquire.com (formerly MicroAcquire) to sell their startup or buy an online business. Learn tips on how to vet sellers/buyers, justify valuations, negotiate terms, handle due diligence, asset transfers, escrow, post-acquisition support, and more!
Acquire.com hosts Startup Acquisition Stories, a business show with 165 episodes published.
Epropel started as a side hustle and grew into a profitable SEO agency with recurring revenue, long-term clients, and a distributed team across North America and the Philippines. Along the way, cold outreach became the e
Mike Blackwell did not set out to build a business around Minecraft. What started as coding classes evolved into Code Knights, an education company built around Minecraft STEM programs, library partnerships, and communit
Anna Zimmer built Lillinello as an Amazon-first home brand with strong reviews, low returns, and Amazon Choice recognition. From the outside, the business looked healthy. But as Lillinello grew, running it started to fee
Hamza Saleem didn’t set out to sell Client Commander. It started as a side project, a CRM built for real estate and recruiting teams based on a market he already knew. The product worked, and early customers came through
Arman Mkhitaryan didn’t set out to build a business for scale. PostFlow started as a side project, a simple social media scheduling tool built around a familiar workflow. The product worked. It solved a clear use case. B
Jacob Miller didn’t set out to build a SaaS product. He was running a home services business when a shift in how customers search started to affect lead flow in a real way. Instead of relying on agencies, he built his ow
Charles Kenny built a profitable e-commerce brand after solving a recovery problem he experienced firsthand. The product worked, customers were buying, and the business ran cleanly. Still, as the brand matured, one limit
Jatin Arora spent six years building Utilize and reached a point most founders recognize: the product worked, customers were happy, and growth was steady. But when he and co-founder Sameer Sanagala decided to sell, the f
Joel Graber built Modern Outbound from zero and watched the same problem show up across every client: design bottlenecks he could not solve. Building a service from scratch meant years of hiring, finding product-market f
Customer support software is one of the most crowded SaaS categories out there. Intercom, Crisp, and dozens of others have been around for years. Building something new in that space and actually finding customers takes
Jeremy Redman didn't set out to build a team. TaskMagic began as a no-code browser automation tool built to eliminate repetitive tasks. While it solved a real problem, it also revealed early limits. Rather than stopping
Ovi Shekh didn’t set out to build a startup. Wisdomic AI began as a practical response to an academic challenge, where literature review work demanded time, structure, and careful organization. The first version was inte
Hugo Pereira didn’t build Ritmoo chasing hypergrowth. The product emerged from real operating experience inside scale-ups, where goal management often looked structured but repeatedly failed in execution. Ritmoo was desi
Faizan Muhhamad didn’t build software to scale teams or chase traction. He built products to work, transfer cleanly, and make sense to the right buyer from day one. By treating software as a transferable asset, Faizan bu
Renata Raya didn’t chase a complex tech idea. She solved a simple problem: cart abandonment in Latin America. By building GoRecover around WhatsApp instead of email, she achieved a 20% recovery rate and created a stable,
Zach Simmons did not approach acquisition as a shortcut. He approached it as a shift in risk. After building companies from scratch, he understood how uncertain the early stages can be. Validation takes time, traction ta
Maxime Berger built BlogBuster in public long before he tried to sell it. With no audience at first, he showed up daily and shared the work as it happened. That consistency created trust before the product ever launched
Arman Iranpour and Matt Aleali built Appraiva with a clear goal: make the business work before trying to scale it. Instead of chasing growth early, they focused on solving one problem well and building a product buyers c
Samuel Abebe almost sold SpeakerSplit too early, but waiting turned it into a business that buyers actually wanted. Instead of cashing out fast, Samuel focused on building predictable revenue, operational clarity, and a
Eddie Lobanovskiy, David Kovalev, and Phil Goodwin didn’t grow a design agency through hype. They built a subscription design business around systems, clarity, and predictable delivery, and that’s what attracted buyers.
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Startup Acquisition Stories is hosted by Acquire.com. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 165 episodes.
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