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
Is there anything more exciting than acquiring your first startup? You get to apply your hard-earned skills and experience to transform an established business and ultimately sell it for a ...
Before investing your hard-earned money, consider the potential returns. A 10 percent return in the stock market is usually considered fantastic, 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 SaaS acquisition market looks nothing like it did four years ago. Multiples have compressed, buyers have gotten more selective, and the founders who exit well are the ones who ...
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At Acquire.com, our mission is simple: help founders close life-changing deals safely, smoothly, and fast. That’s why we’ve partnered with ELG, one of the most trusted law firms in online ...
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If Ian Fourie could give two pieces of advice to founders selling their SaaS startups, he’d say: Ian sold his online corporate training startup, Pluto LMS, on Acquire.com fast (in ...
What does it take to sell a startup for almost 20 times what you paid for it? Gabriella (Gabby) Rosen says it comes down to three things: Gabby originally acquired ...
Have you ever fantasized about quitting your job and living off savings until you built a successful business or ran out of cash? SaaS builder Kamil Zowczac nearly accomplished both ...
eBooks and Reports
When you list a startup on Acquire, one of the trickiest things to get right is the asking price. Valuation is an inexact science, and multiples are like tailored suits, ...
Nothing derails an acquisition faster than legal. It’s the most critical aspect of a sale but often it’s ugliest. Fail to understand the legal process of selling your company and ...
Every startup is keenly aware of how much money it has, and, more importantly, how much money it doesn’t have. As a result, for most startups, the goal is to ...