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Re: Cheddar is For Sale

#2
Just curious -- why are you choosing to sell it instead of holding onto whatever passive income it generates?

I love Cheddar, and judging by some of the sales data shown in the TechCrunch article it doesn't exactly look like it's bleeding money.

Re: Cheddar is For Sale

#3
Curious - are you selling because it's a flailing company with not enough revenue or because the growth is hard to handle on the development side of the company?

Re: Cheddar is For Sale

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post #2

Just curious -- why are you choosing to sell it instead of holding onto whatever passive income it generates? I love Cheddar, and judging by some of the sales data shown in the TechCrunch article it doesn't exactly look like it's bleeding money.

At best, it's generating about $1,750 per month right now[1], and probably represents a huge opportunity cost for Sam, especially given that he's involved full-time with another startup.

[1] (33,499 * 0.0262) * $1.99/month = $1,746.57. More annual accounts means less money.

Re: Cheddar is For Sale

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post #3

Curious - are you selling because it's a flailing company with not enough revenue or because the growth is hard to handle on the development side of the company?

How do you expect someone to answer this question?

Re: Cheddar is For Sale

#7
33503 users, 2.61% are paying 'plus' customers, at, say $20/year = ~$18k in revenue. You'd need to grow and monetize that base a lot more to get back $125k purchase price.

I'm guessing someone might buy it, but there's a heck of a lot more ways you could spend $125k building a similar company to get to profitability faster. There's even more ways to spend $125k to make $18k/year. I'll happily let you invest in my company at $125k with returns of $18k/year for few years. :)

Re: Cheddar is For Sale

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post #7

33503 users, 2.61% are paying 'plus' customers, at, say $20/year = ~$18k in revenue. You'd need to grow and monetize that base a lot more to get back $125k purchase price. I'm guessing someone might buy it, but there's a heck of a lot more ways you could spend $125k building a similar company to get to profitability faster. There's even more ways to spend $125k to make $18k/year. I'll happily let you invest in my com…

Solid point. On the other hand, getting 30k users in general is pretty expensive from a marketing perspective.

The real value is the potential.

Re: Cheddar is For Sale

#10
To answer a question on the page: "I'm not sure how transferring apps from one Apple ID to another works. We can figure it out though."

I'm fairly sure this is impossible. I know people (with large apps and the right contacts) that have tried, and never heard of it being possible. Unless something changed recently. You could transfer the account (unless other apps are also on it).

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