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Ask HN: How much does your startup cost?

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Once I had a dream. In that dream Google purchased my startup for $9 mln. I remember my hard feelings - it was not enough. In my dream I assessed my startup for $19 mln. I try not to think about this. I'm just curious to know what is the approximate price of my startup and who might be interested in purchasing it. What are your assessments of your startups and why?

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I built Musi (http://feelthemusi.com and value it at roughly $125k. It's extremely lean to run, has tens of thousands of users (most of which are active), brings in a decent amount of advertising revenue, has a pretty nice database of user metrics, and has many possibilities for growth.

9 mil is nothing to scoff at. Sell it and start a new company, or work out deal where you continue to work on the product if you simply cannot part with it.

All hypothetical of course =)

Unfortunately $9M from my dream can't help me:) but yes, in real life it might be a great opportunity to start next startup.

Who are current & past competitors? Who bought them? For how much? What type of traction did they have? How do you compare?

My main competitors are Facebook events and MeetUp. But as I said Google has bought my startup in a dream:)

One thing I would also add to my questions above is: Where would company X want to be strategically in? Is it easier to acquire you than build it in-house? That's not necessarily a good enough reason to start something but can be proxy for who might be interested.

It's not a problem for such big guys as Google or Facebook to create clons of lots of startups. But they usually buy them. Probably because they find them promising or competitory. I guess they are intending to monopolize the market

I wouldn't turn down $25M for Improvely today. I might in a year.

It seems like you really love Improvely:)

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