How MicroAcquire is disrupting the M&A industry & a smarter way to exit your startup with Andrew Gazdecki # 142 [ Startups ]

09/24/2021

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Today we have our guest, Andrew Gazdecki joining us once again in SaaS District. If you don’t know the backstory of Andrew and his past success, check out episode #31.

Andrew Gazdecki is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, and founder of Microacquire, a StartUp acquisition marketplace that connects buyers and sellers and gets them into the right conversations.

Andrew has been featured in NYT, Forbes, WSJ, Inc.com, and Entrepreneur Magazine, as well as industry blogs such as Mashable, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat.

During this interview we cover:

00:00 The Financial Due Diligence Framework Course
01:02 – Intro
02:14 – $7M Investment Round & Decision Behind Raising vs Bootstrapping
06:29 – Microacquire in Terms of Size Today (Capital, ARR basis)
10:02 – What’s Being Sold in Terms of Avg. Valuation
11:12 – Half a Million as a College Kid and Avg Days Before Sold
15:12 – Hottest Startups Getting the Most Offers
17:24 – Valuation, Dealing with Overvaluation & Training
22:29 – Access to Capital as Buyers
25:47 – Helping Sellers Gravitate Towards Requests from Buyers
28:30 – Microacquire Competition
30:16 – Playing to Win, Playing Hard & Playing Fair
34:21 – Microacquire & ExitRound
37:35 – Starting a New Solution Today
41:52 – Acquiring Instead of Building from Scratch
45:58 – How’s Andrew’s Measuring His Own Success
48:02 – Advice Andrew Would Tell His 25 Years Old Self
51:42 – Challenges Andrew is Currently Facing
56:53 – Get in Touch With Andrew Gazdecki