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Tiny Startups #56
Jaisal Rathee
March 25, 2025
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THIS WEEK IN TINY STARTUPS
Yoooo — It’s Jaisal (@ratheejaisal on 𝕏)
It’s my final two days in Cape Town before I fly back to the UK. This has been an incredible month and I can’t wait to come back.
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Massive congratulations to Filip who just got acquired for 6 figures! Can’t wait to see what he does next.
Cheers 🥂
After 1.5y of being a solopreneur, I sold one of my apps for 6 figures 🎉 🤑
It's not life-changing money (yet), but it's enough for a few solid years of runway if I decide to do nothing. Obviously, that's not the case.
This ends the first chapter of my
— Filip Kowalski (@filippkowalski)
11:17 AM • Mar 18, 2025
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More indie founders should do this!
In 2018 - 2021 I was running a remote work blog. It'd do:
- $2k+ / mo in long-term sponsorships
- $1k in affiliate links
- $500 in lead magnets, digital gumroad sales etc.This was a tiny blog, barely breaking 1k email subs, and yet it outperformed most indie products in MRR
— Dominic Monn (@dqmonn)
9:03 AM • Mar 19, 2025
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Why would you sell a business making you $500k/month?
I was making over $500k per month personally before I sold my business.
Some months? $600K+.
Profits were growing. Compounding fast.
Then the acquisition offers started rolling in.
And I found myself facing one of the hardest decisions of my life.
— Marshall Haas 🏎 (@marshal)
7:32 PM • Mar 19, 2025
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Qura.ai got acquired!
I sold my first company!
100% bootstrapped to over 1500 users :)
Big thanks to @agazdecki and @acquiredotcom for a smooth exit process
— Johann Sathianathen (@johann_sath)
10:11 PM • Mar 20, 2025
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The reality of acquisitions. Daniel provides a helpful breakdown of what a typical SaaS acquisition deal looks like.
💸💸 Acquisition breakdown ++ THE REALITY of acquisitions
Company I acquired (Encharge):
💰 Revenue: $32k/mo
🤑 MRR: $29,510
💸 Expenses: ~$17,000💵 Profit: $15,000/mo
✍️ Money paid at signing: $250,000
Now, that's the top-level image
IN REALITY, we signed a deal where we
— Daniel Ch (@chddaniel)
8:27 PM • Mar 18, 2025
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Height is shutting down
We're sad to announce that Height will be shutting down on September 24th, 2025.
Building Height would not have been possible without amazing customers like you, and we appreciate the journey we’ve shared together along the way 🖤🖤
— Height (@height_app)
2:44 PM • Mar 23, 2025
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This made me chuckle
Three levels of wealth:
> No LinkedIn
> No LinkedIn— Gregory Kennedy (@I_Am_GKennedy)
3:48 PM • Mar 19, 2025
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See you again next week!
— Jaisal (@ratheejaisal)
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