Hosted forum platform that let anyone create and run a modern-looking free forum, sold with sister domains eamped.com and makeforum.com. CrowdGather closed the asset purchase on 23 July 2010 for 970,859 shares valued at about $990,000, paid entirely in stock.
The $990,000 sale price puts it in the top quarter 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 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.
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Online community and content platform for bootstrapped founders.
Community platform for no-code founders with 34,000 members, generating around $10k/month before being acquired, with founder Joshua Tiernan staying on to run it.
Virtual body-confidence conference and 20,000-member online community; founders Emily Ward and Jess Hunichen sold it to Trafilea for six figures in March 2023.