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
The official partnership between Acquire.com and Boopos was announced in January to offer streamlined, non-dilutive business acquisition loans for small and medium-sized online businesses up to $2 million. Juan Ignacio ...
Update: February 2023 In April 2022, we brought you a Letter of Intent (LOI) Builder to simplify making an offer so you could spend more time negotiating the best deal. ...
Hey there, Andrew here, founder and CEO of Acquire. Few things beat the joy of building a business, fewer still your first acquisition. That feeling when the deal closes is ...
Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast
David was the co-founder and CEO of Buddy, a martech SaaS enabling eCommerce businesses to let customers checkout directly through SMS. A business that was built during the pandemic to ...
Minh-Phuc is a full-time indie hacker and prolific #buildinpublic persona having accumulated a 15k following on Twitter. He’s been on a roll having built six different products in the past ...
Derek and Radu are the founders of multiple Shopify Apps, one of which they sold on Acquire.com for five figures. Although Derek and Radu went with a personal broker to ...
eBooks and Reports
While selling is every founder’s dream, the acquisition process can be a nightmare. It’s long, tedious, and bureaucratic. It can even pull you away from running your business. And in ...
One of the fastest ways to close an acquisition is putting together the right deal structure. Both you and the buyer need to find common ground, a structure that reflects ...
Picture this for a moment… A buyer is interested in your startup. You’ve spent days chatting back and forth via email. You might even have met in person. Now, your ...