Jonathan Markwell

@Jot
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Curious about small, long-lasting, calm companies.
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@benjaminparry sorry just spotted I failed to respond to this. The badges indicated a bunch of different things like if you were working alone rather than with a team, if your business was making money or not and (I think) if you were local to Brighton. Can’t remember all. Hope Reseach by The Sea goes well! I’m out in Alfriston.
@benjaminparry was it you I just saw in a coffee shop in Lewes? Been a long time… and I can’t tell from your profile pic ;)

@alpower we should try and get a little local gathering together this year @exmosis and others might be up for it.

Happy New Year!

@Goul Yes probably better tax wise but might be harder/more expensive to sell. If you want to share more specifics you’re welcome to email me first 3 letters of my name at Inuda.com. Might trigger some other connections.

@Goul is that sub 1M revenue, profit or expected valuation? Might be worth speaking to a broker like https://feinternational.com/ who also operate in the UK if any of those numbers are close to 1M.

Smaller transactions usually involve an asset purchase agreement rather than company sale. That makes the process much simpler.

James, who is written about in this article, is UK (Brighton) based and sold on the platform very early on: https://nocodeexits.substack.com/p/4-how-a-zoom-quiz-app-was-built-promoted

FE International: Technology M&A Advisor

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@d6y @Goul Yes. But I don’t think they’re on this site. My understanding is that the market isn’t what it was a couple of years ago. Lots of “it depends” applies to this kind of thing. There are many ways to sell/exit. I made big mistakes selling a SaaS of my own via a similar marketplace in 2012.

At #bclxiii one person asked me what tech events are still going on in #London?

The combination of the COVID pandemic and WFH has kinda done a number on tech meetups/user groups/etc. Plus RIP Skills Matter, and Meetup and Eventbrite are, well, not exactly optimal for finding things.

Off the top of my head, the London Ruby User Group is pretty active, as are Python London, Rust London, the London Java Community, Codebar etc. What else?

I decided that not every blog post has to be a ground-breaking masterpiece so I quickly wrote up the tale of how we (Podia) have gradually reduced our dependancy on Heroku.

We’re not off it yet, and we won’t be, but we _can_ be and you can too: https://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2024/10/30/moving-off-heroku-slowly

Moving off Heroku, slowly

This is the tale of how we gradually reduced our reliance on Heroku and found a position of power and opportunity

Jamie’s blog
@alanb Thank you! They need to hear it :)

Is it normal for a profitable SaaS that's more than 10 years old to achieve:

📈 20% YoY active customer growth
📈 50% YoY revenue growth
📈 30% YoY MRR growth

...while keeping annual revenue per person above $250K?

Asking for a friend who I think is doing rather well.