{"id":463,"date":"2008-02-05T12:27:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T16:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/463\/indie-biz-for-sale"},"modified":"2008-02-05T12:40:14","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T16:40:14","slug":"indie-biz-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/463\/indie-biz-for-sale","title":{"rendered":"Indie Biz For Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the C4 conference last year, I talked about software acquisition, and about how you might find potential applications that are looking to be taken over by a new owner.<\/p>\n<p>\nSometimes, it&#8217;s as easy as reading a blog post. Lee Falin announces his desire to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leefalin.com\/2008\/02\/05\/software-company-for-sale\/\">sell his company<\/a>, and exit the Mac indie software business.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polarian.com\/products\/ScreenMimic.php\">Screen Mimic<\/a> is a cool app, and would serve as quite a head start for anybody interested in the screencasting market. But the real attraction here is Lee is selling an entire functioning company, which includes administrative elements such as a working online store, which is a classic stumbling block for people just getting started.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt will be interesting to see whether Polarian ends up being acquired by an ambitious new indie developer, or by a larger company that perhaps sees value in propping up its existing video-related software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the C4 conference last year, I talked about software acquisition, and about how you might find potential applications that are looking to be taken over by a new owner. Sometimes, it&#8217;s as easy as reading a blog post. Lee Falin announces his desire to sell his company, and exit the Mac indie software business. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-indie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}