They Got Acquired

Agency

How a young founder grew his freelance website-building business into an agency with $3.5M revenue

After years as a generalist WordPress agency, 93digital tightened its focus to B2B and SaaS clients. The move led to new opportunities, more revenue — and an acquisition.

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SaaS

After this HR platform sold, the buyer rebranded to the seller’s company name, WorkTango

These founders focused on a niche within human resources: how to collect employee feedback and pull out actionable insights. They sold to another HR platform business.

Content

She hired a CEO to strengthen her online training business, then sold for $4.5M

Caitlin Pyle’s “weekend project” teaching others how to proofread documents turned into a training hub packed with courses and e-books. But as the business grew, her passions evolved.

Content

Why Ladders sold just one arm of its company, its 2.2M-subscriber daily newsletter

Why did executive job search site Ladders sells its newsletter to Industry Dive in September 2021? We explain the value of those 2.2 million subscribers, and why selling that list was a sign of a strategic pivot.

SaaS

How A/B testing pricing models helped this SaaS founder sell for a 6x revenue multiple

Australian tech founder Samee Hassan wanted to dive into the process of selling a company. That desire led him to list his SaaS, InstaCap, on a marketplace and learn firsthand.

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Content

With 250K email subscribers, crypto newsletter Milk Road sells after just 10 months

Shaan Puri and Ben Levy created Milk Road to distill the world of cryptocurrency into a fun daily newsletter. Word of mouth helped them grow—and meet a buyer.

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Podcast Episodes

The gutsy cold pitch that landed Laura Roeder a 7-figure deal

32 minutes

Laura Roeder and her husband, Chris Williams, built and sold MeetEdgar, a social media scheduling platform, to SureSwift Capital for 7 figures.

From hot dog stand to 8-figure exit: How Sam Parr built and sold The Hustle

39 minutes

How did this down-to-earth guy with no previous media experience build such a valuable company? Here’s how Sam Parr became one of the leading voices in entrepreneurship.

Anna Maste, Co-Founder of Boondockers Welcome

How a 7-hour workweek led to Anna Maste’s 7-figure sale

30 minutes

This is the story of how Anna Maste and Marianne Edwards, a mother-daughter duo, bootstrapped and sold a membership site for RVers called Boondockers Welcome.

Manuel Frigerio, fo-founder of ReferralHero

From failed startup to 6-figure exit: Manuel Frigerio’s ReferralHero journey

35 minutes

Sometimes it takes building one business to figure out what to build next. That was the case for Manuel Frigerio, who built and sold a Saas, ReferralHero.