LocalU
Decade-old local-SEO training community: a seminar series plus a members forum run by a handful of independent consultants. Sterling Sky acquired it in December 2019 for an undisclosed amount and merged the LocalU forum into the Local Search Forum.
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Exit Analysis
This database tracks 60 Community exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $30,000. 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 10.0 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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