The $99 Side Project
Curated growth-marketing email newsletter launched in 2017 on a documented $99 total startup budget. Founder Miles Burke sold it at the start of 2018, less than 13 months in, for a little more than a 1,600% return on that outlay; the dollar figure was not disclosed.
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Exit Analysis
This database tracks 78 Newsletter exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $5,000. 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 1.1 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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