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Compare exit options for a company
You can compare a named service with licensing your records, compare services with each other, or compare a sale of records with a license, an asset sale, an acqui-hire, and a data license. Each named service comes with the fee from its own site, so you can match the job and the fee before you choose an exit.
Not sure which exit fits? Answer seven questions in which exit option is right for my company.
Vetrix compared with…
How each named service compares with licensing your records, using the fees it lists on its own site.
- Acquire.com vs Vetrix
Acquire.com lists a company for sale. Licensing the records is a separate choice.
- Acquisition.com vs Vetrix
Acquisition.com buys and partners with businesses. It is not the startup marketplace.
- BizBuySell vs Vetrix
BizBuySell sells advertising for business listings. Licensing records is a separate choice.
- DataVendor vs Vetrix
DataVendor lists code and datasets. Licensing operational records is a separate choice.
- Empire Flippers vs Vetrix
Empire Flippers brokers a sale of an online business. Licensing records is a separate choice.
- FE International vs Vetrix
FE International advises on a sale of the business. Licensing records is a separate choice.
- Flippa vs Vetrix
Flippa lists online businesses for sale. Licensing records is a separate choice.
- Quiet Light vs Vetrix
Quiet Light brokers a sale of the business. Licensing records is a separate choice.
- SimpleClosure vs Vetrix
SimpleClosure runs a company shutdown and AssetHub. Licensing records is a separate choice.
- Starcycle vs Vetrix
Starcycle files a US company shutdown. Licensing records is a separate choice.
Other services compared
Services compared with each other, without Vetrix in the table.
- Acquire.com vs Acquisition.com
How the Acquire.com marketplace differs from Acquisition.com.
- SimpleClosure, Starcycle, and Sunset
Three startup shutdown services, on price, scope, and whether they touch data.
Ways to get value compared
These pages compare the job, not a named vendor. Read them when you are choosing a kind of deal.
- Selling vs licensing data
What changes if a company sells records instead of licensing a de-identified copy.
- Asset sale, acqui-hire, or license
Asset sale, acqui-hire, and a data license compared for a company that is winding down.
Match the job, then the fee
Match the job before you match the brand. If you want a buyer for the whole company, read a marketplace or a broker. If you need someone to file the shutdown, read a shutdown service. If you want cash for a de-identified copy and you want to keep the company, read a license. Read the fee before you decide on the fit. A fit that ignores the fee is not a decision.
A marketplace listing and a brokerage engagement are not the same product. One charges to advertise or to host the listing. The other charges a commission when a sale closes, and sometimes an engagement fee as well. A shutdown service charges to file and to manage the closing. A data license does not transfer the company. Read the fee the provider states, then ask whether that fee is due if nothing closes.
When a buyer for the whole company is not there, read ways to get value when a company cannot be sold. If the question is the records rather than the equity, read how to sell company data to AI companies. Read what the company keeps under a data license. Read what is shared and never shared.
The guides for closing, selling, or licensing cover a single task at a time. If you are about to cancel tools, read what happens to company data when you cancel before the vendor's deletion window runs out.
The marketplace once called MicroAcquire is Acquire.com now. Read what happened to MicroAcquire.
People mix up two similar names. Read Acquire.com vs Acquisition.com before you list a startup on the wrong site.
If the job is a shutdown filing, read SimpleClosure vs Starcycle for the price and the scope each service states.
If the question is the records, read selling vs licensing company data before you treat a sale and a license as the same deal.
If you are choosing among assets, the team, and a copy of records, read asset sale vs acqui-hire.
When you want a list of other options, read alternatives to selling your business on a marketplace.
Where each fee comes from
Each fee is the fee on that provider's own site, with the date it was taken. If the provider posts a schedule, the fee is that schedule. If the provider's own site says pricing is quoted or on request, that is the fee you compare. A blog, an affiliate roundup, or another comparison is not the provider's fee.
A company is left off when that fee has not been taken from its own site. Leaving it off is not a verdict that the company is a poor fit, and it is not a rank. There are no affiliate links. The name is there so you can tell the services apart. We are not affiliated with them, and we are not reviewing them.
Read the job, then the fee, then the fit. If two services do different jobs, do not treat the lower fee as the winner. A listing fee and a license payout are not the same kind of money. One is what you pay to seek a buyer. The other is what you are paid for a copy of records you still own.
Related
- Selling a company
How to sell a failed startup, and the options when a company cannot be sold as a whole.
- Alternatives
Alternatives when selling on a marketplace is the wrong tool, or the listing did not sell.
- How to sell company data
How to sell or license company data to AI companies, and which route fits.
- License terms
The four license terms: what you give, keep, agree, and sign.
- What's shared
Which records can be licensed, which details never leave, and what you approve.
- Guides
How-tos and lists for closing a company, selling one, or licensing its records.
- Free tools
Free browser tools for closing or selling a company: eligibility, a payout estimate, and a records inventory.
- Your situation
What changes for your records in eight company situations.
- For advisors
Company data licensing for founders, finance leaders, investors, and advisors.
Questions about comparing exit options
What kinds of exits can I compare?
The comparisons cover selling a company, hiring a broker, shutting a company down, and licensing records. You can read one named service next to a license of the records. You can read two or three other services next to each other. You can also read a sale of records next to a license, or an asset sale next to an acqui-hire and a data license. The list does not rank one option above the others.
Why is a company missing from the list?
A company is left off when the fee on its own site has not been read and recorded. Leaving it off is not a verdict that the option is a poor fit. Read the services that are listed, and match them to the job you need: a sale of the company, a filed shutdown, or cash for a de-identified copy of records while you keep the company. If the job and the fee do not fit, use a different route.
Is a data license the same as selling the company?
No. A sale transfers the business to a buyer. A license grants use of a de-identified copy, and the company keeps ownership of the records. You agree not to license the same records to anyone else. A later buyer of the company has to be told about that limit. The fee, the timing, and what you keep are different in each case, so match the choice to the job in front of you.
Can I do more than one of these?
Sometimes. A marketplace or a broker sells the company. A shutdown service files the closing. A license pays for a de-identified copy and leaves ownership with you. Those jobs can sit beside each other only when the license does not promise the same records to a second buyer. The comparison for the service you are considering says when you can do both, including that exclusive-license limit.