i'm a founder & i want to acquire a pre-seed stage company that's mission-critical for what i'm building. i'm looking for some answers on how to go about acquiring and whether i should directly call up the other company or use a middle man?
If the other business is smart, they won't let you acquire them at all and will force you into a B2B pricing package. Obviously you demand their product and are willing to pay a high fee; sounds like a perfect time to bait you into a contract.<p>Unless you buy them out for a ridiculously eye-watering price, I don't see how this could work well. At founder-scale you should be focusing less on mergers & acquisitions and more on building your product. A good place to start would be engineering a contingency plan if you <i>can't</i> acquire said company.
there is no fixed path, start with email and then follow up if they respond.<p>why raise the cost by using a middle men?<p>seems like you aren't really ready to do this from your questions.