Bootstrapped marketplace for buying and selling mobile app source code and complete games. Stav Zilbershtein bought the domain in 2013 for a five-figure sum and exited about six years later for a mid-six-figure price, over 47x his initial investment.
This database tracks 60 Marketplace exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $18,650. 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 6.0 years. The deal closed through FE International, one of 5 exits in this database that went the same route. 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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