SEO, usability and web-design discussion forum run solo by Kim Krause Berg since 1998. She sold it to Jim Boykin of Internet Marketing Ninjas in 2012 for an undisclosed sum and stayed on to run it.
This database tracks 52 Community exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $42,000. 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 14.0 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.
See how this compares across the market on our market stats page, or browse more Community exits.