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How this content entrepreneur leveraged each of his audiences to grow the next business

Website Investing Publication’s audience of nearly 3,000 readers attracted a buyer who envisioned turning it into a community of keen investors.

SaaS

A self-taught developer used a low-code tool to build this text messaging app

Smooth Messenger’s founder went from growing his skills in Zoho Creator fresh out of college, to building and selling an app powered through the platform.

Resources

Want to Sell Your Business Someday? Do These 4 Things Now

Here’s what founders who sold their company say they would do early on the next time they build a business.

Services

A podcast production company leaned on $250K in equity-free grants to grow to 200 clients

Gabe Murillo scaled PodcastPress, a podcast production service, to 200 clients with the help of startup accelerator grants and paid media.

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Content

Continue to run her health blog, or shut it down? She discovered a lucrative third option

Kate Kordsmeier thought her holistic wellness website, Root + Revel, was her last career stop… but then she got bored. Instead of walking away, she took a different route: She sold it.

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SaaS

Being honest about what she wanted next led this SaaS founder to an acquisition

When Michelle Kwan, who co-founded a real estate marketing company, wanted to try something new, an industry friend was there at the perfect moment.

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Agency

Finding synergies: How an SEO-focused entrepreneur grew 3 related brands under one holding company

Andrej Ilisin learned SEO in its early days, which set him on the path of buying and selling websites, before he launched a services firm dedicated to founders doing the same thing.

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Content

Email newsletter giant MailChimp acquired a print publication. Here’s why, plus how it happened

Despite “print is dead” naysayers, Courier Media built a global publishing company for entrepreneurs and attracted an acquisition offer from one of its prominent advertisers: MailChimp.

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SaaS

Turning a failed MVP into an influencer marketing tool with up to $70K monthly revenue

“A bad year doesn’t necessarily spell certain doom for your business,” this founder reflected on building NinjaOutreach. “You just have to keep trying.”

SaaS

With $16K MRR, simple landing page builder Unicorn Platform sold for $800K

A series of Product Hunt launches and hand-on customer service enabled Alexander Isora to grow Unicorn Platform to $16,000 in MRR before selling it to no-code firm Mars.

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