Subscription virtual-assistant service offering unlimited tasks under 15 minutes for $99 a month. Founder Omar Bohsali sold it to Need/Want in 2014 for a total of $15,000, with roughly 60 customers and $6,000 MRR.
Priced against revenue rather than profit, Jarvis sold at 0.2× annual revenue, below the 2.4× median across the 239 deals with a disclosed revenue multiple. Revenue multiples run higher than profit multiples because they ignore the cost of running the business, so they are only comparable between businesses with similar margins.
The $15,000 sale price puts it in the lower half of the 547 deals with a disclosed price here, where the median is $21,000. 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 48 Agency exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $160,001. 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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4MJ Social was a full-service healthcare-industry marketing agency offering web design, PPC and social media; founder Bobby Dimovski, who started it in 2014, sold it on Acquire.com when family health issues meant he could no longer run it.
A short-form video and social media agency founded by two recent graduates. The bootstrapped agency was acquired by media company Morning Brew.
Podcast booking agency founded in 2019 by Brigitte Lyons, matching clients with podcasts and prepping them for guest appearances; it generated six figures annually. Six months after winding down, the business was acquired by podcast agency Earfluence in January 2024.