Startup Acquisition Stories

Startup Acquisition Stories with Brian Casel - Founder of ZipMessage Brian is serial entrepreneur who has founded multiples SaaS startups and have sold five of his businesses in the span of 8 months. With most of them, Brian found the right buyer on MicroAcquire. He's now focused on his main SaaS startup called ZipMessage. Brian Casel https://www.linkedin.com/in/briancasel/ https://twitter.com/CasJam https://briancasel.com/ Andrew Gazdecki https://www.linkedin.com/in/agazdecki/ https://twitter.com/agazdecki https://acquire.com/

Startup Acquisition Stories with Kevin McArdle - CEO of SureSwift Capital   This is a mini-series within Startup Acquisition Stories where we profile the top Private Equity firms and firms acquiring online businesses at scale on Acquire.com.   Kevin McArdle-   https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-mcardle-6bbb296/  https://twitter.com/kevin_mcardle https://www.sureswiftcapital.com   Andrew Gazdecki -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/agazdecki/ https://twitter.com/agazdecki https://acquire.com

Startup Acquisition Stories with Sujan Patel - Managing Director at Ramp Ventures This is a mini-series within Startup Acquisition Stories where we profile the top Private Equity firms and firms acquiring online businesses at scale. Sujan Patel - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sujanpatel/ https://twitter.com/sujanpatel https://sujanpatel.com/ Andrew Gazdecki -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/agazdecki/  https://twitter.com/agazdecki https://acquire.com

Startup Acquisition Stories with Orkhan Hajiyev - Co-founder of Uvodo Orkhan and his co-founders started a company called Nextsale in 2018. Recently, they were Acquire'd for seven figures. These serial entrepreneurs are already on their new project - Uvodo (learn more below). Listen as Orkhan goes behind the scenes to share his experience listing on Acquire.com. Orkhan Hajiyev- https://www.linkedin.com/in/hajiyev-orkhan/ https://twitter.com/orkhanhelp https://nextsale.io (Got Acquire'd) https://uvodo.com/ (New company) orkhan@uvodo.com Andrew Gazdecki https://twitter.com/agazdecki https://www.linkedin.com/in/agazdecki/ https://acquire.com ================ Uvodo Orkhan's new project is called Uvodo - a modern eCommerce suite for tech-savvy entrepreneurs. They are raising a Pre-Seed round with a $3M pre-money valuation and are looking for a $300k ($100k booked) smart money. They are going to be in competition with big e-commerce platforms like Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, and others. They've built the project with the same team and already sold $800 USD within 6 days. Business model: They are selling it for a one-time fee now and going to do a SaaS with internal features in the upcoming months. In other words: selling e-cigarette devices now to sell cigarettes later regularly.

Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch - Founder of Simple.ink Daniel is a 24 year old entrepreneur with a rich background of founding, building, and growing startups. He recently acquired Emojics.com for five figures on Acquire.com. Listen as he goes behind the scenes to share his experience. Daniel Ch- https://twitter.com/chddaniel https://Simple.ink (Founder) https://www.emojics.com (Company Acquire'd) Andrew Gazdecki- https://twitter.com/agazdecki https://www.linkedin.com/in/agazdecki/ https://acquire.com/

Startup Acquisition Stories with Aaron Stone (Founder) & Zach Hendershot (Managing Partner) from Crux Digital.  They Acquire'd Toybox on Acquire.com. Listen as they go behind the scenes to share their process. Crux Digital is a digital product agency focused on building customer driven web and mobile applications that are mission critical. Toybox is the fastest way to inspect, collaborate, and manage visual feedback on any web application. Aaron Stone https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronastone/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/cruxdigital https://twitter.com/toyboxsystems Zach Hendershot https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhendershot/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/cruxdigital https://twitter.com/toyboxsystems Andrew Gazdecki https://twitter.com/agazdecki https://www.linkedin.com/in/agazdecki/ https://acquire.com/

Startup Acquisition Stories with Derek Homann Co-founder of Workshop Derek Homann:  https://twitter.com/dhomann https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekhomann/ https://www.hellomedian.com/ (Got Acquire'd) https://useworkshop.com/ (new company) Andrew Gazdecki: https://twitter.com/agazdecki https://www.linkedin.com/in/agazdecki/ https://acquire.com/

Startup Acquisition Stories with Trevor Hatfield GP at Inturact Capital. Trevor Hatfield: https://twitter.com/trevorhatfield https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorhatfield https://capital.inturact.com/ Andrew Gazdecki: https://twitter.com/agazdecki https://www.linkedin.com/in/agazdecki/ https://acquire.com

Startup Acquisition Stories with Roman Lytvynenko Founder of Pur Ninja. Roman Lytvynenko:  https://twitter.com/romalyt https://www.linkedin.com/in/roman-lytvynenko-00523b103 https://pur.ninja/en Andrew Gazdecki: https://twitter.com/agazdecki https://www.linkedin.com/in/agazdecki/ https://acquire.com

Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Jakaitis Founder of Chatkick. Daniel Jakaitis:  https://twitter.com/DanJakaitis https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-j-b7037747 https://chatkick.com/ (parent company) https://trinsly.com/ (company Acquire'd) Andrew Gazdecki: https://twitter.com/agazdecki https://www.linkedin.com/in/agazdecki/ https://acquire.com/