The Rationale Behind a $27M Acquisition

Armed with a $15.3 million Series A financing by Andreessen Horowitz and plenty of pre-financing traction, Substack has the potential to leverage one of two opportunities. The likely path forward is an organic approach to local media entreprenuers scaling their own region-based media operations, likely competing with other entrepreneur-journalists ... See more

Successful businesses end up gaining market traction with paying customers, and then get on the radar of dashboards that measure visits, sales, upsell and cross-sell, Nour said via email.  That’s when the rollup or aggregator companies, which have assembled deep domain expertise in merchandising, branding, packaging, scale, supply chain and lo... See more