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Bobby Burch

Bobby Burch

Reporter

Bobby Burch is a business and technology journalist based in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Since 2012, Bobby has honed a passion for writing on entrepreneurship and founders building their dreams. He is a former reporter for the Kansas City Business Journal and is a co-founder of Startland News, a publication dedicated to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Kansas City. Outside of writing, Bobby is a fine art nature and wildlife photographer capturing the beauty of U.S. public lands to help conserve them.

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.

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.

Content

After 16 years, the Half Marathon Guide’s founder reached a 6-figure finish line

Skyrocketing demand for information about half-marathons had helped Terrell Johnson earn about $1.2 million from his content site. But he wasn’t sure he wanted to keep up that pace.

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Content

How The New Stack grew a dedicated audience of developers — and sold to a global VC firm

The New Stack provided developers with context on new technologies. Its success in building a community attracted a well-heeled buyer: the global VC Insight Partners.

E-commerce

After losing inventory to a fire, this young entrepreneur won 22 grants to fund her e-commerce business

Kat Weaver is a case study in determination. From rebuilding her business after a fire destroyed its products to navigating multiple dead-end deals, this founder never gave up.

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Resources

3 companies that served podcasters on their way to an exit

Podcasting is big business. And as these three companies discovered on their way to acquisition, so is serving podcasters.

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SaaS

How three friends built and sold a digital marketing SaaS to 4,000 customers

Nextsale, a digital marketing SaaS for e-commerce store owners with $10-$2M monthly revenue, was purchased by AppHub for low-7 figures.

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