DuckMath · B2C · unblocked games website
Pitch your site to a company that already bought one like it
Countered a $100K lowball; sold for $120K via Escrow
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What they did
A year before selling he saw a bigger company buy a smaller game site like his. He contacted them with all his stats, got a $100,000 offer he considered a lowball, countered, agreed at $120,000, and used Escrow as the middleman to transfer the money. Sold right after the growth spike.
What happened
Sold for $120,000, up from the $100,000 first offer; he slightly regrets it but thinks it was right.
- Stage
- Growth (~4 months into the growth spike)
- Effort
- One buyer approached
“I had seen about a year before I decided to sell that a bigger company had bought a smaller game site exactly like mine. So, I contacted them and I told them all my stats, and then I got low-balled at $100,000, so I came back with a counter offer.”
“We both agreed, and then we used Escrow as a middleman to transfer the money.”
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