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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. For example, when Instagram bought Luma (its first acquisition), the tiny three-person team was part of the deal. Your exit strategy timeline is A LOT shorter. Micro Startup Acquisition Trends.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pipe and MessageBird — March 13, 2020

SaaStr

He’s an incredible founder, person and a very, very dear friend, and changing the way SaaS as an industry will work and be structured in the future. And when I was young, I used to travel the country with him setting up his market store to sell clothes. So fast forward to 2014, I was in LA and finalizing my visa application.