Case Studies

In the past year, there has been a seismic shift in consumer behavior across industries. One of the industries reaping the benefits of this is e-commerce, which has seen massive growth. Digital Commerce 360 estimates that US e-commerce sales accounted for about 21% of total US retail sales in 2020. Consumers spent a whopping $861.12 billion online; that’s up 44% YoY.

Michael Frew is someone who is never content to sit still. An experienced world traveler, he has lived in faraway places from China to the Grand Caymans. Yet, he says it’s his experiences during his childhood as a, quote, “military brat”, that helped shape how he conducts business the most. “I always say, you had to learn how to find a friend to sit with at lunch on that first day…you’ve got to make friends really [quickly].” In this article he shares his best advice for buying a SaaS business and why buying an existing business is a great investment.

Alec Rose grew up in Cork—Ireland’s second largest city. But since 2015, he’s been living in the UK where he found himself in the corporate world offering financial advice. Building websites as a side project during this period, Alec was able to pursue his online businesses full-time at the end of 2020–effectively establishing him as an accomplished affiliate marketer.

Rithesh Menon has always been very entrepreneurial in nature, but he didn’t start out knowing exactly what to tackle on his own. He began his career as a consultant and worked with numerous startups. With experience comes expertise and awareness.

The team at FE International works extremely hard to exceed expectations at every turn. Over the past decade, our team has adapted and fine-tuned the marketing and acquisition process to create a proven and efficient model that gets results for buyers and sellers alike. In this video, entrepreneur AJ Agrawal shares his experience selling his e-commerce business, Verma Farms, with award-winning global M&A Advisor FE International.

We sat down with the founder of Exportly, who recently exited his business and sold through us. Before becoming a Shopify app founder, he found himself as a stay-at-home dad, situated in Australia with his wife and children. With a background of 20 years working for various startups and companies in San Francisco—including Macromedia, which was later purchased by Adobe—he began searching for an opportunity to generate monthly cash flow. The opportunity he seized would ultimately lead him to become founder of the Shopify app Exportly—although it was only a part-time gig, at the time.