Ask HN: Have you ever bought a company to run yourself?

2 pointsby hazard7 ปีที่แล้ว3 comments

There are lots of websites out there for people to sell existing businesses, from SaaS companies to restaurants. It seems like buying and improving an existing business is a higher-cost, lower-risk alternative to founding a startup.

What's it like to buy an established business and try to improve it?

Was it profitable and worth the time and effort? Would you do it again?

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raybon7 ปีที่แล้ว

Very good question. I've been thinking about this for awhile. This is fairly common on the PE industry but I'm not aware of this happening in VC / startup world. OP, can you please post the links of websites that you mention list the SaaS companies please?

hazard7 ปีที่แล้ว

You can just google 'buy a saas business' and there's at least a half-dozen places that come up. Flippa, FE international, Empire Flippers, etc

raybon7 ปีที่แล้ว

Great thanks. If you make progress on this and are looking for business partners, please let me know and we can try to connect offline.