After the interview with Don Daszkowski, the About.com Guide to Franchises, I now had the chance to interview Andrew Markou, an entrepreneur that also deals with selling, buying, or starting a business. Here is what I found out:
I had a look at your portfolio, and I could see a number of business portals like http://www.businessesforsale.com , http://global.franchisesales.com/ www.businesswings.co.uk or http://www.businessopportunities.com I can feel that’s a growing business nowadays, but how did all start?
Andrew: Funnily enough, the business started on paper in the early 1990s, centered on a publication called Businesses & Premises for Sale. It was the main reason why we were able to register great domain names as far back as 1994 when the websites were just supplementary to the offline magazine. The penny dropped quite early on that the days of paper as a means of publishing classifieds and suchlike were numbered, so we then decided to concentrate on developing websites.