Mike Brassfield

Mike Brassfield

Mike Brassfield is a financial writer based in St. Petersburg, Florida. He’s a senior writer for The Penny Hoarder, one of the nation’s largest personal finance websites. He previously worked as a reporter and editor for daily newspapers in Kansas, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, but mostly at the Tampa Bay Times. He has also worked for a PR firm and a U.S. military magazine. He has a journalism degree from the University of Kansas. He’s married with twin teenage daughters.

SaaS Deals

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

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

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

Marketplace Deals

Tired of traditional job boards, these founders took a different approach and grew to $12M ARR

Services Deals

How a health coaching app with $300K ARR fit into this strategic buyer’s roadmap

Patrick Samy, founder of Span
Media Deals

They launched a content site about a market before it even existed – and the gamble paid off

Microgrid Knowledge co-founders - Elisa Wood, Lisa Cohn, and Kevin Normandeau
Community Deals

An SEO community with 750 paying members sold for $1.8 million

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Media Deals

Worried about the rise of artificial intelligence, he sold an SEO content agency for $850,000

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SaaS Deals

He built a SaaS for Notion in public and sold for $300K

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