Formerly MicroAcquire (now acquire.com)

I think more founders should consider buying their second startup instead of building it from scratch. Hear me out. You spend five years bootstrapping a SaaS company. Finally sell it for $3M. You've learned how to build products, hire employees, acquire customers, and run a business. Now you're ready for your next adventure. Most founders immediately start thinking about what they should build next. But what if you bought a SaaS company already doing $300K in annual revenue? It has paying customers. A working product. Some organic traffic. Maybe even a small team. You could spend the next three years growing that business instead of spending the first year trying to get your first 10 customers again lol. And with your experience, you might see opportunities the previous founder never had the time or resources to pursue. Obviously buying a startup comes with its own risks. You still need to understand the customers, financials, and why the owner wants to sell. But I think experienced founders are uniquely positioned to become incredible startup buyers. You've already learned how to build a company. Imagine what you could do with one that already has a head start. P.S. thinking about selling your startup? Our team will help you understand what your business is worth, prepare it for buyers, and guide you through the entire acquisition process. Meet the team here: acquire.com/guided-by-acquir…

Having 3 serious buyers interested in your startup can completely change how an acquisition plays out. Let's say you're selling your SaaS company. Buyer #1 offers $3M. Pretty exciting. You've spent five years building the thing and someone wants to pay you millions for it. But then buyer #2 comes along and offers $3.5M. And buyer #3 offers $3.2M, all cash, with a much shorter transition period. Now you've got some interesting decisions to make. You can negotiate on price. Push for better payment terms. Find a buyer who actually shares your vision for the business. And most importantly, you're no longer depending on one person to get the deal done. I've seen how much the dynamic changes when multiple buyers are genuinely interested in the same company. Even if you end up selling to the first buyer, having other options gives you a lot more confidence at the negotiating table. This is why I always encourage founders to get their business in front of as many qualified buyers as possible. You spent years building something valuable. Might as well find out who wants it most lol. P.S. thinking about selling your startup? Our team will help you understand what your business is worth, prepare it for buyers, and guide you through the entire acquisition process. Meet the team here: acquire.com/guided-by-acquir…

Most founders spend years building their business and almost no time preparing to sell it and unfortunately that can cost them a lot of money. Today at 11 AM PT, we're hosting a free webinar on how to prepare your business for an exit. We'll cover what buyers actually look for, how to increase your valuation, common mistakes to avoid, and how to build a business someone would love to acquire. Even if selling is a few years away, you'll get a ton out of this. Hope to see you there! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…

Some of the best startups I've seen solve problems that are incredibly boring. Invoicing and billing software. Appointment scheduling. Inventory management. Compliance reporting. Stuff nobody is getting excited about at a dinner party lol. But here's what I love about these businesses. The problems are real. Customers already spend money solving them. And once your software becomes part of how someone runs their business, they have a pretty good reason to keep paying you. Imagine building a simple scheduling tool for plumbing companies. You get 200 businesses paying $250 a month. That's $50K MRR or $600K a year. All from helping plumbers manage their calendars. Pretty awesome business if you ask me. I think too many founders spend months looking for some revolutionary idea when there are thousands of ordinary businesses dealing with the same annoying problems every single day. You don't need to invent the next social network. Sometimes you just need to make something that saves a business owner five hours a week. Boring software can make a lot of money. And I absolutely love that about entrepreneurship. P.S. thinking about selling your startup? Our team will help you understand what your business is worth, prepare it for buyers, and guide you through the entire acquisition process. Meet the team here: acquire.com/guided-by-acquir…

Your first $10K in MRR is one of the hardest milestones you'll ever hit as a founder. Getting 100 strangers to pay you $100 a month for something you built is pretty incredible. Especially when you remember how it started. You probably spent months building the product. Launched to absolutely nobody. Sent 100s of cold emails. Got ignored by 99% of them. Had customers tell you your product sucked. And at some point you probably wondered if anyone was ever going to pay for the damn thing lol. Then you get your first customer. Then 10 and then 50. Eventually your waking up to $10K in recurring revenue every month. That's $120K ARR. You've figured out how to build something people actually want and convince them to pay for it. And now you've got a foundation to build on. I think founders sometimes get so caught up comparing themselves to startups doing $10M or $100M in revenue that they forget how difficult those first few customers really are. If you're working toward your first $10K MRR, keep going. And if you've already hit it, take a minute to appreciate what you've built. It's a pretty damn big deal. P.S. thinking about selling your startup? Our team will help you understand what your business is worth, prepare it for buyers, and guide you through the entire acquisition process. Meet the team here: acquire.com/guided-by-acquir…

One of the weirdest things about building a successful startup is that eventually you might stop enjoying it. You started a company because you love building stuff. You're talking to customers and shipping product. Figuring out how to get your first 100 users. Every day feels like you're creating something new. Then 5 years go by.... You've got 30 employees, millions in revenue, and a business that's doing great. But now your calendar is full of meetings. You're dealing with HR issues and reviewing budgets. Managing managers and teams. And somehow you haven't touched the product in six months lol. I've experienced this first hand. The skill required to start a company are pretty different from the skills required to run one with 30 employees. There's nothing wrong with realizing you enjoy 1 more than the other. Maybe you hire someone to run the business. OR maybe you sell it and go build something new. I think a lot of founders feel guilty admitting they're ready to move on from something they worked so hard to create. But you've already done something pretty incredible. You're allowed to want to do it again. P.S. thinking about selling your startup? Our team will help you understand what your business is worth, prepare it for buyers, and guide you through the entire acquisition process. Meet the team here: acquire.com/guided-by-acquir…

A founder who makes $300K a year for 10 years and then sells their startup for $3M has made $6M from one business and I think that's a pretty underrated way to get wealthy. Imagine bootstrapping a small SaaS company. You've got 5 employees, a few hundred customers, and a product that solves a pretty boring problem. Nobody is writing TechCrunch articles about you. You're probably not getting invited to speak at startup conferences lol. But every year you're making $300K. Over 10 years, that's $3M. Then one day you decide you're ready to move on. You find a buyer who loves the business and sell it for another $3M. That's $6M in total earnings and sale proceeds before taxes. All from a company you built from scratch. I think founders sometimes forget that you can make a ton of money along the way and still have a valuable business to sell at the end. You don't need to build the next unicorn. A profitable little startup that quietly makes money for a decade can turn into a pretty incredible financial outcome. P.S. thinking about selling your startup? Our team will help you understand what your business is worth, prepare it for buyers, and guide you through the entire acquisition process. Meet the team here: acquire.com/guided-by-acquir…

Selling a startup for $2M after 3 years of building it is a pretty incredible accomplishment. That's roughly $667K for every year you spent working on the business. Obviously that's before taxes, expenses, and whatever money you invested along the way. But still. Imagine starting a SaaS company with $20K of your own money. You spend the first year figuring out what people will actually pay for. The second year getting customers and building a small team. And the third year making the business profitable. Then someone offers you $2M to buy it. I'd call that a pretty damn successful three years. But I think startup culture has convinced a lot of founders that a $2M exit is somehow small. Which is hilarious when you consider how difficult it is to build something that another person is willing to pay $2M for. You created a product, convinced strangers to pay for it, built a business around it, and found someone willing to acquire the whole thing. That's an incredible achievement. And now you've got the experience to go do it again. P.S. thinking about selling your startup? Our team will help you understand what your business is worth, prepare it for buyers, and guide you through the entire acquisition process. Meet the team here: acquire.com/guided-by-acquir…

If your startup makes $1M a year in profit, hiring a CEO for $200K might be one of the smartest things you ever do. Hear me out. You've spent five years building a SaaS company. You've got a great product, happy customers, and a small team. But you're still the person making every important decision. At some point, you might want to do something else. So you hire someone for $200K a year to run the business. Assuming they can maintain performance, you're still making roughly $800K a year before taxes. And suddenly you've got a whole lot more time to work on whatever you want. Maybe you start another company. Maybe you finally take that month-long vacation you've been talking about for years lol. Or maybe you just enjoy being an owner instead of running the business every day. And here's something interesting. If you eventually decide to sell, you've already solved one of the biggest concerns buyers have. Who's going to run the company when the founder leaves? Obviously finding a great CEO is easier said than done. But building a startup that can operate without you is a pretty incredible achievement. Especially when you still own the whole thing. P.S. thinking about selling your startup? Our team will help you understand what your business is worth, prepare it for buyers, and guide you through the entire acquisition process. Meet the team here: acquire.com/guided-by-acquir…

I think founders who sell their 1st startup have a pretty unfair advantage when building their 2nd. Imagine you spend 5 years building a SaaS company and eventually sell it for $5M. You probably made a thousand mistakes along the way. Hired the wrong people. Wasted money on marketing that didn't work. Built features nobody wanted. Spent six months figuring out something that should've taken two weeks. But now you've got five years of experience and potentially millions in the bank. When you start your next company, you're playing a completely different game. You know how to find customers. You know which hires actually make an impact. You know how to manage cash. And you've already been through the process of selling a business. I experienced this firsthand after selling Bizness Apps. Building my next companies felt completely different because I'd already made so many expensive mistakes. I think founders sometimes underestimate how valuable that first exit can be. You might sell your first startup for $3M and eventually build your next one into a $50M company. Pretty wild what a little experience and financial security can do. P.S. thinking about selling your startup? Our team will help you understand what your business is worth, prepare it for buyers, and guide you through the entire acquisition process. Meet the team here: acquire.com/guided-by-acquir…