Navigating Job Commitments and Acquisition Valuations

In episode 662, join Rob Walling for a solo listening adventure where he talks through the key factors to consider in an acquisition, whether to sell a business for five years of runway and knowing when to move on from a SaaS app you built.

Topics we cover:

• 1:15 - Switching jobs while bootstrapping
• 7:36 - Key factors to consider for an acquisition
• 18:57 - Taking a job as a founding engineer vs. starting a lifestyle business?
• 23:49 - Selling a business for five years of runway
• 27:47- Knowing when it is time to move on from a SaaS app you’ve built

Links from the Show:

• The Art of Selling Your Business: Winning Strategies & Secret Hacks For Exiting on Top
• Deploy Empathy: A Practical Guide to Interviewing Customers 
• The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers & Learn If Your Business is a Good Idea When Everyone Is Lying To You 
• Episode 628 I The 5 P.M. Idea Validation Framework 
• MicroConf Europe
• MicroConf Youtube Channel

If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you.

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