FDCareers.com
Job board for fire-department careers, selling access to firefighter job postings. Bright Mountain Media bought it in May 2014 for $52,000 plus $13,000 for handover and training.
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The $52,000 sale price puts it in the upper half of the 608 deals with a disclosed price here, where the median is $20,000. Most indie acquisitions cluster well under the headline numbers founders read about, which is exactly why a real distribution is more useful than an average.
This database tracks 64 Marketplace exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $20,000. 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.
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