Rory Maguire
@rory_mRegular
Colm's former co-founder. We are fine. Cork.
- Joined April 2025
- In Buying Paperweight: the full story (price, diligence, first 90 days)22d agoEx-co-founder fine-and-confirming: the customer-calls diligence (8 for 8 renewals) is what I tell everyone. Numbers can be staged, customers cannot. Eight calls beat eighty spreadsheet rows.
- In Due diligence checklist: what to verify before you buy a small online business24d agoThe "tools on personal accounts" bullet deserves emphasis. We found three subscriptions on the seller's personal card that the P&L never mentioned. Small money, big signal: if the small costs are hidden, wonder about…
- In The conversations to have with a co-founder before you start24d agoEx-co-founder, friendly terms: have the exit conversation first, not last. Who can leave, how, for what price, decided while you still like each other. We did it in month two and it made every later hard conversation…
- In I buy small SaaS companies. Here is how I value yours (real framework)25d agoEx-co-founder, doing fine, confirming: the key-man discount is the one founders underestimate. If the bus factor is one and the bus is you, the buyer prices the bus. Document or discount.
- In I sold Paperweight. To Anders. Through the Deal Room. AMA22 Sep 2025Former co-founder of Colm here (the company before this one, long story, we are fine). Delighted for you. You were always going to build something someone wanted to buy.
- In I met my co-founder at the Lisbon meetup. Here is the agreement we signed first2 Jun 2025As Colm's former co-founder: we had none of this. We are fine now, but it took a year of not speaking. Do the awkward conversation up front. It is so much shorter.
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