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Mark Henderson

GetAcquired Startup Marketplace - Startup marketplace, free for buyers & sellers

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GetAcquired is the modern marketplace for buying & selling startups. Powered by OpenAI, our listing editor gets you to market in minutes. Access 2 years worth of listings data. Our Advisor Marketplace helps you build your deal team. Free for Sellers & Buyers.

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Mark Henderson
Maker
Two years ago we bought our first SaaS business, FirstOfficer. The deal took 8 months to complete and should have only taken 1 month. Here's how what we're doing is different. First, we're 100% free for both Buyers & Sellers. There's no premium subscription required to contact our sellers. Sign up, and connect. Our mission is to help founders get the most for their startups. And we've been building a ton of features for over a year to support that. - Our modern marketplace helps you put your best foot forward. - OpenAI helps get your professional listing to market in minutes. - FirstOfficer powers GetAcquired's metrics and charts. Connect and done. - Every sellers has access to 2 years worth of listing data directly in our listing editor to help them set and support their valuation. - Lastly, we've created an Advisor Marketplace to help founders build their deal team. We vette every applicant to ensure the highest quality of advisor. Connect with Brokers, Finance & Lawyers (and soon Lenders). This is just the start for us. We've got exciting new products and features under development. If you're a buyer, join up for free and check out our listings! If you're a seller, everything is private. There's no exclusivity clause. We want you to sell, and we want you to get what your startup is worth.
Mark Henderson
Maker
Thanks Aleks!
Ross Currie
@markhenderson77 The startup sales marketplace is so hot right now. If it's 100% free for buyers and sellers, how do you make money?
Mike Ritchie
@markhenderson77 @rossdcurrie I'm guessing they take a cut of the deal instead of charging a subscription.
Mark Henderson
Maker
Sorry guys, I’d replied to this one already in a different thread and assumed you saw it. Anyone can sell for free, but for those that want help selling we work off a 2% success fee. Totally optional though.
Dimi Tarasowski
Congrats on the launch. There is never enough good marketplaces. My question is more business related. How do you plan to make money?
Mark Henderson
Maker
We actually offer sellers optional deal support for 2%. Anyone can sell for free, but if they want our help we’re here for that.
FarEars tech
Congrats on the launch, Looking forward to launch our product on your marketplace
Mark Henderson
Maker
Awesome! Let me know if you need any help
Atman Jain
Congrats on the launch! Alternative usecase when enough startups are on the platform is using it as a research tool as well! :) Food for thought.
Ajay Sridharan
Maker
@atman_jain Agreed! We are hoping to create a community where founders can help each other out.
Zachary Jordan
I really like this idea and hope it takes off. Do you have any examples of testimonials from founders who have successfully closed a deal on your platform? Also: for those seeking a valuation, how is the data that is submitted secured? Are you selling the data people provide to you in any capacity?
Ajay Sridharan
Maker
@zachary_jordan1 Glad you asked :) We helped Ring4 get acquired few months back and you can find the announcement here - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/a... . We are also working on a testimonial with Alex on his experience.
Zachary Jordan
@ajaypromodh Sounds good, would you mind answering my second question regarding data security/privacy?
Ajay Sridharan
Maker
@zachary_jordan1 sorry missed your second question. No we don't sell the data to anyone. As part of the process, if you choose, we use the data to auto create a draft listing for you and that's about it.
Karol Andruszków
Congrats on the launch! Good idea, clear design. Great job.
Mark Henderson
Maker
Much appreciate!
Brandon Gains
Congrats on the launch! I've known Mark for many years in startupland and he's grown to be a close mentor/friend over the years as we've become leaders in YYJ. Mark & Ajay have been working together on projects and have that classic co-founder relationship that we all look for. Look forward to being a fan of GetAcquired for years to come!
Marc Grewenig
Interesting, I've seen other similar companies now in the same space.
Akintunde-Rotimi
Great idea. I just tried to create a listing for my startup https://www.quickpublisher.online and your platform says the URL is invalid. seems your regex pattern (if that's how you validate) marks TLD like online, cloud as invalid :(
Mark Henderson
Maker
Thanks for the heads up! We’re on it
Ajay Sridharan
Maker
@dave_t Hi there, thanks for the heads up. The issue should now be fixed.
David Parsons
Site doesn't work for me on Firefox 92.0.1. Works on Chrome
Mark Henderson
Maker
Ya… we’ve had a bit of struggle with FF this last week :( Sorry about that
Ajay Sridharan
Maker
@davidparsonsau Looks like FF doesn't like gzip compression for our js assets. We fixed it now. Thanks for the heads up.
Ellery Kreloff
Congrats on the launch!
Wayne Downs
Nice Hunt!
Hamza Javed
Great stuff! Looking forward to listing my SaaS and gettingAcquired in the next few weeks!
Hi @markhenderson77 . I had actually bought this domain getacquired.co around 15 days ago. Will there be any legal issues? I'm not sure what to do with it now. Do you want to buy it or something? idk 😂
Jake Tital
Cant wait to explore this Marketplace more. I got a lot of hungry buyers looking for those deals
Akshita Gupta
Very intrigued by the idea of a free marketplace. This could be helpful for makers and buyers looking for like minded dealings. Curious as to whether you provide any guarantees against illegitimate offers?
Luke Kling
Was wondering when I would see this launch after you start emailing me about selling my site on your platform. Considering the only place I had it listed was MicroAcquire, my assumption is you are building a list of potential customers from them. Interesting strategy.
Pranab Buragohain
On an average, how long does it take to approve a listing?
Tim Schmidbauer
What makes you different to Microacquire, @markhenderson77 ?