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patio11 sold his business through this site and said only positive things about it: http://feinternational.com/

Considering that it is worth how much someone is willing to pay, might be a great place to some benchmarking.

I've heard of them and might contact them, but I'm not really interested in paying a broker fee unless they could get a premium price.

I understand, but what I am suggesting is looking in their "sold listings" to get a benchmark on how much your startup is worth.

IMO it answers your post question much better than any HN commenter might do (except if a HN commenter is willing to actually buy your startup)

Excellent idea - you sir/ma'am are a genius!!

I will be careful about SOLD listings there. They never list the actual selling price but only the asking price. So you don't know what the final sale price was.

Sold price is a good ceiling best case number, which is somewhat useful still.

I have attended a few MicroConf's where patio11 is a regular speaker, and from his "selling BCC" talk it sounded like feinternational will help you figure out if it is a good deal to work with them.

What's to loose other than a few hours of work filling out their questionaire about your business?

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