Originally Posted by Nathan

will76, what most people here do not realize is, that what I did was not:

1) Sell NATS shares
2) Start my own amateur site
3) Buy Mansef

Buy Mansef is step 10), step 3-9 is completely ignored...

I looked at over 200 companies/sites over the past 4 years, I bought around 10... Mansef was #8. More is possible in adult than you think, with growth/optimizing and so on...

Just imagine:
1) Buy a site worth 6m in adult, it will make likely 350k profit a month.
2) Grow that site through planned optimizations to 600k over a period of 3 months.
3) After 12 months you have your 6m back.
4) Buy another site for 10m, 6m upfront, it will profit around 500k a month
5) Grow the two sites, through synergies and optimization again from 1.1m to 1.5m in 3 months.
6) After 12 months you made 13,2m - 4m rest payments, 13.2m free and clear.
7) Buy another site for 20m, 13m upfront, it will profit around 1.5m a month
8) Grow the three sites, through synergies and such again, from 3m to 4m in 3 months.
9) After 12 months you made 46m - 7m payment, thats 39m cash free and clear.
10) It just took me 3 years to make 6m into 39m for the next acquisition, I also make 4m more each month...

I am of course not saying this is easy to do, but its clearly possible... You just need to know what you are doing and how to do it. You need to of course also find the right things to buy...