Case Studies

Rithesh Menon has always been very entrepreneurial in nature, but he didn’t start out knowing exactly what to tackle on his own. He began his career as a consultant and worked with numerous startups. With experience comes expertise and awareness.

The team at FE International works extremely hard to exceed expectations at every turn. Over the past decade, our team has adapted and fine-tuned the marketing and acquisition process to create a proven and efficient model that gets results for buyers and sellers alike. In this video, entrepreneur AJ Agrawal shares his experience selling his e-commerce business, Verma Farms, with award-winning global M&A Advisor FE International.

We sat down with the founder of Exportly, who recently exited his business and sold through us. Before becoming a Shopify app founder, he found himself as a stay-at-home dad, situated in Australia with his wife and children. With a background of 20 years working for various startups and companies in San Francisco—including Macromedia, which was later purchased by Adobe—he began searching for an opportunity to generate monthly cash flow. The opportunity he seized would ultimately lead him to become founder of the Shopify app Exportly—although it was only a part-time gig, at the time.

Growing and scaling a business is not for the faint of heart. Though it has a similar connotation, scaling is different from simply growing a business. Effectively scaling your SaaS business takes strategic planning and there are certain structures that need to be in place to maintain a growing business, without it falling apart.

Tom Benattar, a French entrepreneur living in the south of France, has lived and breathed the SaaS space for over six years. He made his debut in 2015 when he co-founded SaaS Invaders—a private sales website that provides great deals on various tools, resources and apps designed for startup growth.

Selling your online business is a serious decision for any owner, and the process of seeing a sale through to completion can be intimidating for first-time and experienced sellers alike. Hiring an M&A advisor is a good step in helping to ease the effort, but as with any major endeavor, it pays to be well prepared from the outset. Having successfully sold over 1,000 online businesses, we’ve put together some guidance on how sellers of a content or affiliate business should best prepare for the sale process.