Bootstrapped two-person husband-and-wife mobile app studio making photo-album and video-editing apps, with roughly 7 million cumulative downloads and no outside investment. Sold to Metaps Inc. in February 2016; amount undisclosed.
This database tracks 67 Mobile App exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $5,800. Category matters more than founders expect: buyers apply different discount rates to a content business, a mobile app and a B2B tool even at identical revenue.
From founding to sale took 4.0 years. Time to exit is a decent proxy for how built-to-sell a business was: shorter, cleaner processes usually mean documented operations and fewer surprises in due diligence.
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