They Got Acquired

SaaS

These Shopify app developers looked for one deal – and found a more lucrative one they didn’t expect

These co-founders connected with a potential buyer interested in one of their smaller apps. As conversations continued, a more lucrative deal emerged.

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Content

An unsolicited offer for this cannabis news website came along at the right time

For these revenue-challenged founders, an acquisition offer came at the perfect time.

SaaS

How this developer’s apps for Atlassian landed a deal with a major player

When Tuncay Senturk built a plugin to customize Atlassian workflow software, he was not planning to start a company. Fifteen years later, he sold Snapbytes to industry peer Appfire.

Content

This sports writer hit a home run: he sold his newsletter and got to keep writing it

This reporter turned his side project into a full-time gig, writing a newsletter about college sports. But his true passion was writing — not running a business.

Agency

This founder sold his SEO agency but retained ownership of his A/B testing SaaS

SEO agency Distilled sold to digital media agency Brainlabs, while the founder kept its software business unit as his next initiative.

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SaaS

These edtech founders overcame VC challenges, a war and a pandemic before selling

The founders of edtech ClassTag managed to grow the business to 7 figures in annual revenue and 5 million users, then sold to SchoolStatus.

Vlada Lotkina, co-founder of ClassTag, and her daughter, Sophia.

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Podcast Episodes

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.

Donald Spann, Co-Founder of Vicky Virtual Receptionists

Donald Spann’s goal was time freedom. He got it by building a virtual call center

36 minutes

This entrepreneur says you don’t have to be passionate about your business. Here’s what he suggests instead, and how he built Vicky Virtual Receptionists to an exit.

When’s the right time to exit? Jon Hainstock on selling ZoomShift

30 minutes

Is there a right time to sell your business? This was what Jon Hainstock and his co-founder, Ben Bartling, had to figure out when they were planning their exit from ZoomShift.

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.