Open-source container vulnerability scanner written as a hobby project over Japan's Golden Week 2019. Acquired by Aqua Security; the author said the amount was nowhere near hundreds of millions of yen but covered several years of living expenses.
This database tracks 190 Developer Tools exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $23,000. 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 4 months. 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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