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MicroAcquire: Sell Your Startup
- rasengan 5y agoThis is very cool. I tried to signup though and it required a LinkedIn account. I deleted my LinkedIn account due to privacy policy changes I disagreed with. Hope it can one day remove the prerequisite of a LinkedIn account. Great idea and great work!
- config_yml 5y agoSame here, tried to sign up last week but got stopped out by this requirement.
- lloydatkinson 5y agoWow that’s insane, the last thing I would want is a SSO with LinkedIn of all things.
- mritchie712 5y agoIts not SSO, just an input asking for it
- victor106 5y agoAndrew is a great guy. Yeah, I agree about the LinkedIn requirement. I deleted mine for that and other reasons one of the primary being people bombard you asking for recommendations.
- shannifin 5y ago> Hope it can one day remove the prerequisite of a LinkedIn account. Agreed. Not a big LinkedIn fan, but was able to sign up with my really crappy minimal-info LinkedIn account.
- malux85 5y agoJust signed up now, it appears they don’t do much validation on the input, I put in “linkedin.com/404” and it let me pass
- switchstance 5y agoWhen you ask a company a question via MA, they can look at your LinkedIn account before turning over any info.
- malux85 5y agoSo? They will see I don’t have one. As lots of people on this thread have mentioned - not everyone has a LinkedIn profile, and making it a required field on the signup form is dumb.
- switchstance 5y agoAre you in the market to buy a startup? My guess is that most people wanting to legitimately buy a business will have a LinkedIn account. I’m curious how you’d vet users if you were running the platform.
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- ___luigi 5y agoI deleted my Linkedin account as well. I use other social platforms. I think you can use your email to signup. Linkedin is just an option.
- hbcondo714 5y agoI learned about MicroAcquire after reading the article The rise of the one-person unicorn here on HN. It gives good context on selling startups and tools used in bootstrapping: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28187204 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28187204
- mritchie712 5y agoThat’s my target for wax.run: ambitious hackers that don’t want to hire growth, sales and marketing teams https://www.wax.run/ https://www.wax.run/
- isuckatcoding 5y agoFeel like your website might need more details…seems very minimal.
- nikodunk 5y agoTwo friends have bought and sold a few small companies on here - it’s legit. Pretty crazy how “liquid” of an asset a project/company can be nowadays.
- mritchie712 5y agoWhat companies?
- elpakal 5y agoalso interested if you could share info about these - size/revenue of the companies sold and maybe acq price.
- microacquire 5y agoWe have a whole podcast dedicated to founders who have bought & sold startups on MicroAcquire, you can check them out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOnfcOr0hcY&list=PLO30Q8WzVLKNAtUHELW4mVikad_K7UF4G&index=15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOnfcOr0hcY&list=PLO30Q8WzVL...
- sommohapatra 5y agoSeeing stuff like this and Pipe popping up everywhere in my feed, as well as firms like Polymarket financializing event betting and NFTs financializing art/community membership. Financialization of everything is something that excites me, but curious what the drawbacks of this might be. Financialization is eating the world?
- shrimpx 5y agoIt’s a cool product and I’ve only lurked so far. But without contacting each seller to release private info, you know only super generic info like “e-commerce startup with $x ARR”. There’s kind of too little info at a glance to even know if you want to engage the seller.
- cpncrunch 5y agoWell that seems like a benefit to me (as a company founder). I really don't want my info shared willy nilly.
- jmuguy 5y agoI signed up for a few of these marketplaces but they want some pretty large money upfront to find out any real info about the startups being sold. I guess it makes - you could go around them and make an offer directly. But it’s kind of irritating not being able to see any info. I was just more or less curious and wanted to see a few examples of companies/projects that went through this process.
- amonedude 5y agoThis is useless since all of the postings are Premium. Good model to have me unsubscribe as soon as I subscribed.
- jsf01 5y agoThe website is completely unusable to anyone who doesn’t have a LinkedIn account. And it requires you to sign up before showing any content whatsoever. But the worst thing is how it strings you along. When you click “View Listings” you don’t expect to be forced to sign up with an email address first. I did that, then in order to continue I had to fill out another form with “all fields required” where one of those fields is to point to a LinkedIn account. And based on other comments here, apparently to get any value you need premium anyway. I can’t stand sites that use these dark patterns.
- hendi_ 5y agoIndeed. Flagged the post for this reason. The site is full of dark patterns.
- microacquire 5y agoThanks for the feedback, we'll be improving our onboarding process soon with additional verification methods.
- switchstance 5y agoHere’s a good interview with the founder. https://mixergy.com/interviews/microacquire-with-andrew-gazdecki/ https://mixergy.com/interviews/microacquire-with-andrew-gazd...
- microacquire 5y agoAh I really enjoyed this interview, thanks for sharing.
- kentf 5y agoIf anyone is interested in selling their eCommerce business, we are working on some great features at Clearco. Look at https://Angel.clearbanc.com https://Angel.clearbanc.com or send me an email kent [at] clear dot co
- floatingatoll 5y agoI wonder if their sales data will parallel the gender bias of VC funding. They’re anonymizing but still showing userpics and names, so all the usual biases have opportunity to occur.
- twillin 5y agoI’ve seen this before, but similar to others her have had a difficult time finding info about examples. I’d be very interested to hear from someone on HN who has first-hand experience with them.
- Causality1 5y agoIt's weird to me that these days people start companies with a greater emphasis on selling the company than on selling a product or service. It has a very "decline and fall of the Roman Empire" vibe.
- brianwawok 5y agoBut why not both? It's fun to build a company. It's also sometimes time to unload it, and move on to something else. It's a very different kind of person that wants to start a company vs operate it for the rest of their natural life.
- microacquire 5y agoHey everyone, Andrew from MicroAcquire. Really appreciate the feedback. I wanted to address the comments around the LinkedIn verification and flow. In the near future we'll be enabling other ways to verify your account but trust is crucial for founders so it's required for access. Thanks for all your support, I really appreciate it and if you ever have any questions I'm pretty easy to find on Twitter or LinkedIn (pun intended). Cheers.