- Advert ID: 705884
Profitable Web Business In A Proven Market For Sale
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- United States
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- > Silicon Valley
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Summary
- Asking price:
- $130,000
- Sales revenue:
- $76,000
- Net profit:
- $36,000
- Home based:
- This business can be run from home.
- Relocatable:
- This business can be relocated.
Business description
This is an established profitable web business in a proven market. The website makes it easy for people to share photos, videos and audio.
The website has been running since 2005 on 18 servers located across 5+ ISPs in the US. It has about 1 million unique users a month and an alexa rank of less than 8,000.
Revenue ranges from $48k to $72k/year while costs are $36k/year. Extensive SEO has generated over 1.2 million links in Google.
Over 30,000 active uniques participates on a daily basis. We have over 5 terabytes of active user data downloaded on a weekly basis.
The founder of YouSendIt is selling this business at an extremely competitive price. YouSendIt has been funded $34M from Alloy Ventures, Sevin Rosen, Sigma Partners, Emergence Capital, Cambrian Ventures and the Stanford Technology Fund.
$100,000 has been invested into this site to build a scalable architecture that can support 10s of millions of users. Automated systems to deal with abuse. Employeeless operations so no staff costs. Redundant hardware systems, relying on 5 different ISPs. A loyal userbase that maintains itself without marketing costs. A new owner can add social networking components or build additional product value to build a viral application that competes with the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Bebo, YouSendIt, etc.
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Property information
- Location:
- Silicon Valley
Other information
- Expansion potential:
- A new owner can add social networking components or build additional product value to build a viral application that competes with the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Bebo, YouSendIt, etc.
- Competition / Market:
- The website is a competitor of YouSendIt and was created by the same person. The market is over $10million/year in revenue and over $100,000 has been invested to date in this website.
- Reasons for selling:
- I realize I am at a loss selling this but that is how Silicon Valley works. I just want to cut my losses and move on.
Contact the seller
For more information about this business for sale, click the Contact Seller button.
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