A downloadable Windows solitaire game that only dealt hands guaranteed to be winnable. Eric Sink sold it to Dennis Cronin of freecell.com in December 2005 for an undisclosed four-figure sum, which he donated to Katrina relief.
This database tracks 70 Other exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $1,900. 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 1.0 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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