All You Ever Wanted to Know About Acquisitions
Everything you wanted to know about acquisitions
Resources for entrepreneurs selling, buying, and growing online businesses.
Getting started with Acquire
Sellers
Selling your startup might be the last thing on your mind right now. I’m sure you’re busy enough just running your business, so why add acquisition planning to your to-do ...
Few could blame you for wanting to pay as little tax as possible on your acquisition. After all, you’ve invested years into building your startup to the point of exit. ...
What do you want from an acquisition? For most founders, it’s three things: to sell quickly, easily, and for the highest price. You might hold secondary goals such as finding ...
Buyers
What’s the number one thing stopping you from buying a business? Usually, it’s financing. Either you lack the cash in the bank or your bank won’t (or can’t) lend it ...
Before investing your hard-earned money, consider the potential returns. A 10 percent return in the stock market is usually considered good1, but on Acquire, it’s not unheard of to acquire ...
Think of the Letter of Intent (LOI) as a starting pistol. Once fired, the race to complete the acquisition as quickly and easily as possible begins. While not legally binding, ...
News
No question causes more controversy than, “How much is my startup worth?” You’ll find plenty of valuation methodologies to help you answer that question. We’ve written about most of them. ...
In May 2023, I got on a phone call with someone I met on Twitter to talk about no-code startups. Since its founding in 2021, 86 no-code businesses were sold ...
Hey there, Andrew here with phase two of our plan to help get more startups Acquire’d. As you might’ve heard, we’re charging a 4 percent closing fee on all acquisitions ...
Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast
Have you ever gone to a store and watched the person behind the counter manually write down your purchase in a notebook? Probably not recently – but everyone used to ...
What’s easier? Selling something people know they need, or selling something people don’t know they need? Alan Li had lots of initial success with his startup, Moxa, an app for ...
How do you know when you’ve finally found product market fit? Some founders might define it as when they get large numbers of customers with very little effort or money. ...
eBooks and Reports
When it’s time to sell your business, you know it in your gut. You might feel burnt-out or anxious, or long for a fresh start. However the feeling manifests, you ...
Did you know you can now hire an acquisition expert from within your seller dashboard? With a professional on your team, it’s much easier to sell quickly, easily, and for ...
One of the first things buyers look at when evaluating startups is the asking price. Reasonable and justifiable asking prices will earn you serious buyer attention and potentially a deal. ...