Startup Sphere Weekly #61

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Welcome back to another weekly edition of Startup Sphere - the once-a-week newsletter that sends you three profitable businesses for sale, to help you find your next venture.

This week’s edition is sponsored by Microns - the all-in-one platform for buying, selling, and browsing online businesses for sale.

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Let’s get into this week’s listings ⤵️

Weekly Rundown

AI video ad creation platform

Asking Price: $35,000
TTM Revenue: $94,600
TTM Profit: $89,700

Automated ad creation has been a booming niche, which is growing with the rise of AI. Lots of companies promise to replace or improve entire marketing teams (a tall order).

This business is a video platform specifically for generating video ads (with AI). The idea is that users don’t need to know editing and can just create video content with text prompts.

The platform has an impressive scale, with 200,000 users and thousands of videos generated. It also brings in 200,000 visitors every month through SEO and makes $94,600 per year.

The listing price for the business is very low (0.37x revenue multiple) so I would jump on this opportunity while it’s available.

→ view the listing on Microns

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SaaS for affiliate marketers

Asking Price: $350,000
TTM Revenue: $1,118,000
TTM Profit: $179,000

Affiliate marketing is an extremely lucrative business, and will continue to be lucrative as long as the internet exists.

There are millions of people online who run affiliate marketing campaigns. Want to guess what their biggest pain point is? Making more money.

The business for sale is a suite of tools specifically for affiliate marketers to help them optimize traffic, and increase conversions. The company offers a variety of products, like a traffic marketplace, analytics tool, digital course, etc.

This is always an attractive proposition to me because it shows there are various avenues that the business can take to grow.

The one thing to think about here is the extremely low-profit margins (15%). This is quite low for many businesses, especially SaaS.

→ view the listing here

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Pokemon live stream e-commerce store

Asking Price: $550,000
TTM Revenue: $268,000
TTM Profit: $112,000

I’m not fully familiar with the context and workings of this business, but it definitely caught my eye (btw if you are, reply to this email and fill me in).

The business for sale is Poke Pack Battle - an e-commerce and live-streaming brand with a focus on Pokemon.

Their shop only sells two products (different Pokemon packs).

From my understanding, a lot of the sales come from TikTok live streaming. IMO, this is a super positive signal and shows a sign of an engaged community.

If you’re able to get people to buy your products via a live stream, you’ve won (now you just have to scale).

→ view the listing here

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