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Remember our startup microPledge.com? Want to buy it?

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11 pointsbenhoyt15 comments

Wouldn't you be better off trying to sell it on flippa.com or something like that?

Thanks for the tip. We hadn't actually heard of Flippa. We looked at Sedo, but it focuses on selling domain names. Looks like Flippa sells the platform/business too.

This is to buy the source and an instance of it as your own startup, and optionally the rights to re-sell it.

from the listing all the above plus complete ownership of the platform including exclusivity, rights to on-sell, etc

It sounds like you're selling the whole IP - if this is not the case, could you clarify what 'exclusivity' refers to?

That is the case. We will be considering offers for that.

are you familiar with the new paypal developer platform? you can now have people create an authorization of amount X, but not charge them until some date in the future(I believe the max window is 1 year).

Would that help your situation at all?

Would be curious to know about your experience with bizbuysell.

Thanks -- actually, with PayPal you can only "Authorize and Capture" funds for 29 days, which isn't enough. A year would be quite nice.

However, there are a number of payment gateways that microPledge can use aside from PayPal. At this point we're interested in licensing the software and/or selling the entire business.

could you shoot me an email off site? my address is in my profile.

You should put in on ebay. Starting bid $0.99 with no reserve.

What technology is it based on?

Python + web.py, and PostgreSQL for the database.

The name looks a bit going against the sell. It doesn't live up to the site.

No.

Very helpful, sir! Care to expand on that a bit? For example, why, and where you think we might focus our efforts, etc.

Just trolling I think...

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