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Re:My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder by chinchilla2020 on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:09PM (#39400759)
Not true at all. The local corner store, laundromat, and plumbing company are usually not something that can be sold easily. If they do, it takes years to find a buyer and they are getting a low sale price.

Tech startups had high multipliers in the past 10 years thanks to dumb money, low interest rates, and lot of hope. Most of those things are drying up and many tech startups that had decent valuations are now worthless.

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Re:My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder by creer on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:17PM (#39400864)
> If they do, it takes years to find a buyer and they are getting a low sale price.

Is this true of standard businesses like laundromat or plumbing?

Or is it a matter of such businesses rarely being in a condition that makes a sale easy? If these are in a good condition accounting-wise for example, they should integrate readily and for a basic multiple of sales into one of the neighbors?

What I have seen is unrealistic prices - and that's another matter.

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