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Ask HN: How much does your startup cost?
Once I had a dream. In that dream Google purchased my startup for $9 mln. I remember my hard feelings - it was not enough. In my dream I assessed my startup for $19 mln.
I try not to think about this. I'm just curious to know what is the approximate price of my startup and who might be interested in purchasing it.
What are your assessments of your startups and why?
- speedyapoc 12y agoI built Musi (http://feelthemusi.com http://feelthemusi.com and value it at roughly $125k. It's extremely lean to run, has tens of thousands of users (most of which are active), brings in a decent amount of advertising revenue, has a pretty nice database of user metrics, and has many possibilities for growth.
- orky56 12y agoWho are current & past competitors? Who bought them? For how much? What type of traction did they have? How do you compare?
- onechik 12y agoMy main competitors are Facebook events and MeetUp. But as I said Google has bought my startup in a dream:)
- orky56 12y agoOne thing I would also add to my questions above is: Where would company X want to be strategically in? Is it easier to acquire you than build it in-house? That's not necessarily a good enough reason to start something but can be proxy for who might be interested.
- onechik 12y agoIt's not a problem for such big guys as Google or Facebook to create clons of lots of startups. But they usually buy them. Probably because they find them promising or competitory. I guess they are intending to monopolize the market
- dangrossman 12y agoI wouldn't turn down $25M for Improvely today. I might in a year.
- onechik 12y agoIt seems like you really love Improvely:)
- majurg 12y ago9 mil is nothing to scoff at. Sell it and start a new company, or work out deal where you continue to work on the product if you simply cannot part with it. All hypothetical of course =)
- onechik 12y agoUnfortunately $9M from my dream can't help me:) but yes, in real life it might be a great opportunity to start next startup.