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Moriah Costa

Moriah Costa

Moriah Costa is an award-winning freelance journalist specializing in business, alternative financing, banking, and investing. Passionate about business and numbers, she got her Master’s in Financial Journal from City University of London and her Bachelor’s in Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

Originally from Arizona, she's been living abroad for the past six years. Her work has appeared in Thomson Reuters, the Arizona Republic, Washington Business Journal, Benzinga, and more. When she isn't writing or reading the news, she can be found urban sketching or at flea markets.

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.

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SaaS

How this PR agency owner created and sold her own SaaS podcast database for 3x revenue

Christina Nicholson created a podcast database to help her PR agency but decided to sell after realizing her heart wasn’t in it.

Agency

After talking with 15 potential buyers, this agency owner sold to another fully remote agency

This demand generation and marketing agency was growing steadily when founder Brandon Pindulic began to think about exiting. Here’s how the deal came together.

SaaS

After this HR platform sold, the buyer rebranded to the seller’s company name, WorkTango

These founders focused on a niche within human resources: how to collect employee feedback and pull out actionable insights. They sold to another HR platform business.

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E-commerce

He bought a mobility aid drop-shipping site for $9K. A year later, he sold it for 15x

This entrepreneur put years of flipping experience to work on his first e-commerce site. He leaned into SEO to drive traffic and increased revenue to $30K+ per month.

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Podcast

Can you sell a business based on a personal brand? Lauren Gaggioli did

Lauren Gaggioli nearly let her course business Higher Scores Test Prep die because she wasn’t sure it was big enough to sell. Then she found a buyer and exited for $180,000.

Lauren Gaggioli, founder of They Got Acquired