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How my Startup Got Acquired

Hey everyone! My first startup got Acquired a couple of months ago. I wanted to share as much of the story that I could. So here is a 6 minute video doing just that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvC_lDY3vag

Here is the timeline:

  • Started ‪http://coffeepass.io‬ with by buddy from college early 2018.
  • Nights and weekends for 6 months
  • Part time for 9 months
  • Raised seed money
  • Full time for 9 months
  • Paid off investors
  • Pushed to the back burner
  • Negotiated with buyer for 9 months
  • Sold shortly after Covid

I hope it is encouraging and helpful to you in some way! You can have an outcome like this as

posted to Icon for group Building in Public
Building in Public
on November 11, 2020
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    "After Covid" sounds like 2022. ;)

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    Thanks for sharing! What's your next project?

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      Currently supportman.io. and then I'm going to be starting on another micro-saas soon.

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    Absolutely love the video. Congratz!

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    This comment was deleted 5 years ago.

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      We wanted to take care of people that invested in the business before we took any money. I guess we didn't technically have to pay them back but it was a friends and family round and it was the best thing to do.

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        This comment was deleted 5 years ago.

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    This comment was deleted 3 years ago.

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      Well our business model was that we charged coffee shops 8% of each transaction that went through the platform. 4.4% of that when to Stripe processing fees. so profit was 3.6% of each transaction.

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