E35 Launching a startup acquisition marketplace with MicroAcquire founder Andrew Gazdecki
Description
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Andrew Gazdecki, founder of MicroAcquire. The episode was recorded when MicroAcquire was still a fully bootstrapped one person company. A few weeks later MicroAcquire announced that it had raised a $6.3m Seed round led by Bessemer Ventures.
00:00 Intro
01:09 What is MicroAcquire?
02:55 Buying a micro-SaaS as a learning experience
05:15 Andrew’s own founder path
10:40 Key bootstrapper metrics
14:53 Solving the chicken-and-egg problem
19:17 Supply side: company profiles
20:24 Marketplace discovery vs. transaction facilitation
22:45 Microacquire marketplace monetisation
26:51 Microacquire as a curated marketplace
30:12 Dealing with inflated seller asks
33:25 Disrupting the business broker industry
35:45 Competitor marketplaces
36:50 Scaling Microacquire
38:10 Raising venture capital vs. bootstrapping
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