Bootstrapped web app for sending large files to other people instead of attaching them to email. Ryan Carson and his co-founder built it in 2005 and sold it three years later, in 2008, for an undisclosed sum.
This database tracks 333 SaaS exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $18,000. Category matters more than founders expect: buyers apply different discount rates to a content business, a mobile app and a B2B tool even at identical revenue.
From founding to sale took 3.0 years. Time to exit is a decent proxy for how built-to-sell a business was: shorter, cleaner processes usually mean documented operations and fewer surprises in due diligence.
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