E35 Launching a startup acquisition marketplace with MicroAcquire founder Andrew Gazdecki

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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Andrew Gazdecki, founder of MicroAcquire. The episode was recorded when MicroAcquire was still a fully bootstrapped one person company. A few weeks later MicroAcquire announced that it had raised a $6.3m Seed round led by Bessemer Ventures.

00:00 Intro

01:09 What is MicroAcquire?

02:55 Buying a micro-SaaS as a learning experience

05:15 Andrew’s own founder path

10:40 Key bootstrapper metrics

14:53 Solving the chicken-and-egg problem

19:17 Supply side: company profiles

20:24 Marketplace discovery vs. transaction facilitation

22:45 Microacquire marketplace monetisation

26:51 Microacquire as a curated marketplace

30:12 Dealing with inflated seller asks

33:25 Disrupting the business broker industry

35:45 Competitor marketplaces

36:50 Scaling Microacquire

38:10 Raising venture capital vs. bootstrapping

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