Useful Media

We build, buy, and operate useful digital media and SaaS companies.

We help companies go the distance whether we’ve built it from scratch or acquired it from the founding team.

If you’re looking to sell, we acquire profitable and growing SaaS and media brands with $1M – $10M in annual revenue.

It has to be useful

There are many tools and brands that are convenient but not truly useful. You can get rid of them tomorrow and it won’t make much of a difference in your life. We bring our expertise to bear so the truly useful organizations get a chance to compete with the big players.

Our Vision

We don’t want to end world hunger or ensure world peace. Our vision is much more pragmatic. To ensure that the organizations, founders, and employees that have poured their blood sweat, and tears into something truly useful are able to exit with outcomes they’re happy with while ensuring their legacy lives on.

Why Useful Media?

We don’t only look at companies that have chased growth at all costs or that have the potential to IPO. Instead, we’re looking for companies that have the potential to grow but that also understand that profit matters. Solid products, solid unit economics, and a solid team are what we’re looking for. For those kind of organizations, we make the transition painless.

Why sell to us?

It’s your organization and we’re sure you want it to find a good home. Here are a few reasons why we may be a good fit (and a few reasons why we may not be).

Focus on what matters

There are only a few key metrics that we look at. Customers, revenue, and profit. We’ll also look at the things directly tied to those metrics. Everything else is usually immaterial for the type of companies we purchase and can be enhanced over time.

Quick replies

If you reach out to us to purchase our company, we’ll get back to you within 48 hours whether we’re interested or not. That way, you won’t be wasting your time.

Flexible terms

If you want to stick around for a while as a consultant or key employee, fine. If you want to hand us the keys and then move to the Amazon rainforest (after a short transition period of course), that’s also fine. We don’t do clawbacks, performance targets, earn-outs, etc. We’re founders too and know that everyone has different goals when exiting their company so we do our best to accommodate you.

Confidential

Beyond a press release letting the world know that your company has changed hands, we keep the details of the deal confidential. This is to protect your interests and ours.

30 - 60 days close

We won’t bog you down with piles of paperwork and a due diligence checklist that stretches from here to the moon. We’ll take a look at the key things like your tech stack, your management team, and your financials. As long as things more or less check out, we’re good to go.

Efficiency above all else

We’re not aiming to fire your entire marketing and development team and replace them with our own. We do appreciate efficiency and know that founders often don’t have the skillset needed to reduce costs so sometimes we have to make tough choices like downsizing the team and bringing on more senior people to man key areas. With that being said, we do try to preserve the culture you’ve built as much as possible.

What we’ve built, bought, and sold

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