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Re:Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016 by grow91 on Friday December 30, 2016 @12:42PM (#13285739)
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Re:Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016 by forgetsusername on Friday December 30, 2016 @01:02PM (#13285889)
$120,000 in credit card debt (with interest) for a sale of $215,000 (less taxes)? Something doesn't add up.
Re:Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016 by perlgeek on Friday December 30, 2016 @04:22PM (#13287576)
From reading the report, I didn't think that he made 120k $ debt just to make the sale; rather he financed his second startup with credit card debt, and used some of the AR sale to pay back the debt.
Re:Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016 by sethev on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:15PM (#13286543)
What are you implying? He said in the post he paid off most of his creditors after closing. If the final price was $215k it certainly seems possible to pay off most of $120k with that.
Re:Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016 by forgetsusername on Friday December 30, 2016 @04:16PM (#13287533)
>If the final price was $215k it certainly seems possible to pay off most of $120k with that.

Right. I was "implying" that perhaps the business wasn't as good a business as I thought.

Re:Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016 by charlesdm on Friday December 30, 2016 @09:37PM (#13289129)
A business like AR with $60k in profit sold for $215k seems like a pretty good deal for the seller.

On a yield basis, that seems like a great deal, but given the work involved (+ chance of the business being disrupted), I'm not sure I like that profit to price paid ratio. It certainly isn't a price I would have paid.

Re:Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016 by sjg007 on Friday December 30, 2016 @10:17PM (#13289246)
Why? Seems cheap? <4x? Next phase is a sales force to get customers.
Re:Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016 by pja on Friday December 30, 2016 @01:35PM (#13286143)
patio11 can confirm or not as he chooses, but it sounds to me as if the $120,000 credit card debt was incurred whilst spinning up Starfighter.
Re:Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016 by tptacek on Saturday December 31, 2016 @10:51AM (#13291488)
No. (I think the post is clear about this, too).
Re:Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016 by graeme on Saturday December 31, 2016 @03:25PM (#13292963)
Oh. He perhaps he should clarify, as that's how I read it as well (I'm sympathetic to Patrick, so I wasn't reading that with a skeptical eye). He wrote something about taking equity out of AR to put into Starfighter, using credit card debt.
Re:Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016 by cperciva on Friday December 30, 2016 @01:20PM (#13286040)
He said there were four offers within two days, so the final price may have been significantly higher than the original asking price.