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Selling29 October 2026

Selling a Project You Still Love

The hardest listing isn't the failed project. It's the healthy one you've outgrown – and love inflates the price.

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14 Oct 2026 The handover manual you build before you list (not after you've sold) The single highest-leverage thing you can do before listing is not tidy the code or raise the price. It is writing the … Transfer 13 Oct 2026 The Asset Inventory That Turns a Scary Handover Into a Boring One The deal doesn't die at the price. It dies in the handover – and one document, built before you list, prevents almost … Transfer 08 Oct 2026 How to Prepare a Digital Project for Handover in 14 Days Most deals don't die at the price. They die when the buyer tries to figure out what they're actually buying. Transfer 07 Oct 2026 Build It to Sell From Day One The decisions that determine your exit were made before you had anything to exit. Selling 06 Oct 2026 The 30-Day Pre-Sale Checklist for Small Digital Projects Most listings fail before the first serious inquiry. Here's the four-week sequence that changes that. Selling 01 Oct 2026 Bundling and Unbundling: The Only Two Tricks You Need (And You're Still Doing Both Wrong) Barksdale said there are only two ways to make money. Most buyers run at the dumbest version of both. Buying 30 Sep 2026 10 Ways to Ruin a Micro-Acquisition (and How to Win Instead) Most sub-$500k acquisitions that go wrong fail for the same handful of avoidable reasons. Here are the ten, and how to sidestep … Buying 29 Sep 2026 Income Acquisitions: Buying Digital Assets That Pay (Why "Passive" Is the Wrong Word) You can buy a digital asset that pays you every month. You cannot buy one that pays you for doing nothing. Here's … Buying 24 Sep 2026 How to Grow the Revenue of a Business You Just Bought The fastest revenue wins on a business you just bought aren't a price hike. They're the leaks you fix before you ever … Buying 23 Sep 2026 The first week after terms are agreed Terms are agreed and the clock starts on the riskiest week of the deal. A day-by-day playbook for the transfer window, from … Transfer
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