MENTA
Japanese online mentoring marketplace matching learners with working engineers on monthly contracts, taking a fee per contract, at roughly $9.3K MRR. Launched June 2018 as the founder's 30th indie product and transferred to Lancers by share transfer in October 2020.
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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.
From founding to sale took 2.0 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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