Startup Sphere Weekly #49

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Weekly Rundown

Remote job board for healthcare workers

Asking Price: $78,000
TTM Revenue: $26,000
TTM Profit: $22,700

I pretty much never associated healthcare work with remote work, but this is a really cool business that proves otherwise.

The website is a job board for healthcare workers, specifically focusing on remote jobs like telehealth, remote nursing, medical coding, etc.

There are a couple of advantages to this business specifically. Firstly, the operation is mainly run by a VA, which gives a lot of the work hands-off to the new owner.

I also think the target audience is strong. Medical professionals often have money and therefore are willing to spend it on career-improving opportunities (like this job board).

The company makes $26,000 in ARR, which isn’t massive but it proves that there is some addressable market for this niche.

→ view the listing here

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Before and after Wix plugin

Asking Price: $370,000
TTM Revenue: $97,000
TTM Profit: $94,000

Here’s another niche listing that caught my eye just because I didn’t even think of it as a business until now.

The company for sale is a Wix plugin that allows website owners to showcase before and after images. I assume it is one of those “slider“ interactives that lets users see the improvements provided by a website/company.

To me, this is a really interesting solution that shows that there is an audience for everything. This plugin is installed on 50,000 websites, with 7,000+ paying customers. It seems like the main audience is visual artists, architects, beauty salons, etc.

What I find cool about these types of tools is that even if a customer doesn’t pay, their website acts as a backlink, driving more traffic toward the plugin.

→ view the listing here

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Platform for sharing passwords and files

Asking Price: $752,000
TTM Revenue: $113,000
TTM Profit: $108,000

The business for sale is password.link, a secure platform for sharing sensitive information like passwords and files. This seems like such a simple, but straightforward concept. You write a secret, get a unique link for that secret, and send it to someone. Once that link is opened, the secret cannot be accessed again.

I am probably not the target audience for this, since I’ve never even thought about using something like this. But I can definitely see some use cases.

Because the tech is so simple (at least it seems like it) the business has an impressive 95% profit margin.

They also have some large customers like Monday.com.

I think the price for this business is a bit high, but it seems like a great buy at a lower multiple.

→ view the listing here

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Micro Acquisitions

• A learning platform connecting students with tutors. $700 ARR.

• A newsletter for small creators, with over 6,000 subscribers.

• SaaS boilerplate to speed up product launch. $3,000 revenue.

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