Carson Kohler

Co-founder Sharon Gillenwater spent 14 years growing her executive database. She shared how the sale happened — and how much money she actually walked away with.

The Honeymoons.com team was getting older and wasn’t keeping up with the latest tech. But the buyer, Jim Campbell, was just getting started — and was attracted to the domain.

In 2015, Stephania Varalli and Alicia Skalin became the third owners of Women of Influence. In 2022, they had grown the community’s social followers 20x and were ready to find a fourth owner.

These life partners lamented boring project management apps, so they built their own. One Jira app turned into six — and a team of 11 contractors — before they decided to sell.

Marwan Barakat’s child sunglasses brand got removed from Amazon after hitting $220,000 in monthly revenue. After rebuilding his brand, he sold Baby Sunnies.

Ravi Kurani sold his pool monitor company, Sutro, three years after launch — and before the product had even gone to market. His patent is what attracted the buyer.

“Everything we did was more about effort than money,” WhiskerCloud founder Adam Greenbaum said. He shared how he grew the agency to 2,000+ clients before selling.

After more than a decade of growing her wedding website, Maggie Lord was ready to find a buyer. So, she reached out directly to her eventual buyer.