The AI edge: Small biz owners are selling smarter and earning more

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Ben eventually sold his business for a whopping $1.8 million on Flippa.com. How?

Unlike brick-and-mortar businesses, online businesses are harder to sell. The problems online business owners such as Ben face are multi-faceted. How did Ben arrive at such a valuation for his business? How did he connect to a prospective pool of buyers? How did he handle the marketing? How did he access domain experts and arrive at an informed decision? How should entrepreneurs such as Ben manage their exit strategies more effectively to maximise value for themselves and other stakeholders?
These are all questions Ben had to consider before proceeding with the sale. For online businesses, it becomes difficult to address these issues. This is where Flippa—an online platform that connects owners of online businesses to potential buyers—comes in. Flippa provides sellers with an artificial intelligence (AI) matching engine that precisely tackles the problems online business owners face while trying to sell their enterprises. Flippa gives accurate valuations using the latest machine learning (ML) algorithms in as little as 30 minutes. Additionally, Flippa provides access to thousands of buyers and what's more their AI recommendation engine matches sellers such as Ben to a highly targeted set of buyers, which reduces the time he would otherwise spend finding the potential buyer.

Connecting, bidding, selling: Flippa at every step

From getting valuations after a business owner provides details of their online business, which can be anything from a relatively simple blog to e-commerce sites and mobile apps, to connecting them with relevant buyers and providing a personalised broker, Flippa is with sellers every step of the way. This is a one-stop