An SEO/affiliate content site telling readers whether specific foods fit a ketogenic diet; ran fully passively in maintenance mode earning $1-2k a year before being sold to fellow indie founder Rasul Kireev.
This database tracks 215 Content/Media exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $25,100. 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 6.0 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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