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
Harinderpreet Singh, founder of MicMonster, a text to speech cloud-based SaaS, recently sold the business for six figures on Acquire.com. With a strong background in SEO and a thriving affiliate ...
Every founder knows they can take their business to the moon if they know how to sell. However, once they are ready to sell their business, many don’t realize they ...
“Supply creates its own demand.” That’s a famous quote from French economist Jean-Baptiste Say, and it’s one that still holds true in any marketplace – including Acquire.com. Because he almost ...
eBooks and Reports
Nothing quite takes the shine off an acquisition like due diligence. It’s long, tedious, and often stressful. After the elation of the offer, it’s like a bucket of cold water ...
If you want to buy another business, don’t let a lack of capital hold you back. You’re unlikely to land that killer idea first time so serial entrepreneurship is your ...
Remember the last time you asked for help? Perhaps you didn’t know how to do something, it was too difficult to do alone, or you wanted to focus on other ...