Etude
Solo-built iPad app that displayed sheet music with a piano roll and small keyboard, turning pages automatically when propped on a real piano. Dan Grover sold it to Steinway & Sons in September 2011.
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Exit Analysis
This database tracks 81 Mobile App exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $5,400. 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 1.0 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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