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You are going to have a hard time selling if your code is incorporating open source libraries. Standard M&A D&D is to see how defensible the codebase would be
by IG_Semmelweiss 4y ago
You are going to have a hard time selling if your code is incorporating open source libraries.
Standard M&A D&D is to see how defensible the codebase would be and determine IP.
The buyer can be buying several things:
1) Ip
2) people/knowhow
3) customers
4) cash flow
It sounds like you dont have 2. You may not have 3 if you are not doing sticky b2b enterprise sales with low churn. If you are selling your baby, that means the juice is not worth the squeeze and thus 4 is low.
That leaves 1. Do you have IP?
If you are using open source, you are going to have a hard time shopping it. You need a technical buyer to know what they are getting into.