🚀 0 to 8 figure exit in 18 months

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Back in January 2023, Tibo and Tom, founders of TweetHunter, sold their startup for 8 figures.

It was started as a tiny twitter project just 18 months before that - A collection of viral tweets.

Turned into a Thread scheduling tool, reached $1 Million ARR in 12 months.

And eventually sold to Lemlist for an undisclosed (7 figure+) amount.

Top framework of their success?

• Building in Public

• Strategic Partnerships

• Side Project Led Growth

This was their rough deal structure at the time of the acquisition -

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Initial Validation

Tibo and Tom didn’t want to dwell on the wrong idea for too long. It’s better to fail fast and move on than to fail slow and get stuck.

So they decided to launch a bunch of projects - 1 new project every week.

In about 4 months, they shipped 11 products.

Only 1 took off - Tweet Hunter.

Read the full story of Tweet Hunter in these 2 articles I wrote back then -

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Thanks

Ayush 🙏

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