Have you bought a business via acquire.com?

by a searcher from Universidade de São Paulo

11 months ago

Hi all, 

I'm looking to learn more from searches that have bought and operated businesses (saas, mobile or shopify apps) bought via acquire.com. I'm particularly interested in understanding the main challenges on the first 100-ish days of operations and if the due dilligence made pre-acquisition was enough. 

I've been hearing a lot that having a tech partner to operate on the day-to-day helps, but distribution is the main challenge, especially for smaller deals < 100k USD. Have you had this experience?

Thanks so much,
L.

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searcher

I've been looking into this. Always wondered the same thing

1 month ago | like reply | 0 likes

searcher from University of Illinois at Chicago

I've done two deals on MA.com / A.com. You need to have an understanding of the tech side of things and all the moving parts. Support post deal, both tech and customer support, will be key as you transition. There's often a lot of supporting services involved (last deal I did had ~12 SaaS services as part of the transition)

10 months ago | like reply | 1 like

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