They Got Acquired

E-commerce Deals

How this college student navigated his drone startup’s boom and bust before selling for $2.9M

Charlie Cannon wanted to make drones more affordable, so he started EXO Drones at the age of 19. Less than two years later — before he’d graduated college — he found a buyer.

E-commerce Deals

They reinvented pantyhose — and sold their e-commerce business for $200,000

Husband and wife team Laura McGuire and Jason Clewell brought complementary skillsets to founding Hipstik Legwear, but struggled with outdated ideas about their industry.

Media Deals

How a CrossFit-themed newsletter dead-lifted its way to 75,000 subscribers and a 6-figure sale

Morning Chalk Up, which drew an engaged audience of CrossFit enthusiasts, was bought by strength-sports media company BarBend.

SaaS Deals

How solving a product managers’ pain point led this SaaS to $2.2M revenue and a sale

Usersnap, a bug reporting tool used by 1,500 different companies, was acquired by saas.group, a firm that buys bootstrapped SaaS companies.

Klaus-M. Schremser and Josef Trauner, co-founders of Usersnap

Media Deals

She recorded a 3-hour course to help nurses pass their NP exams. Within 7 months, she’d made $1M in revenue

After passing her NP exam, Sarah Michelle Boes launched a virtual course to help others prepare. Seven months later, she hit $1 million in revenue. Two years later, she sold without a broker.

Sarah Michelle Boes, founder of Sarah Michelle NP News

Services Deals

This software development firm was acquired because of its “high touch, low volume” approach

CRM software firm Felinesoft, which primarily works with U.K.-based nonprofits, was acquired by London tech partnership ClearCourse, which is buying a wide range of companies.

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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.

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.

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.