[soneca]

patio11 sold his business through this site and said only positive things about it: http://feinternational.com/

Considering that it is worth how much someone is willing to pay, might be a great place to some benchmarking.

[throwawayValue]

I've heard of them and might contact them, but I'm not really interested in paying a broker fee unless they could get a premium price.

[andersthue]

I have attended a few MicroConf's where patio11 is a regular speaker, and from his "selling BCC" talk it sounded like feinternational will help you figure out if it is a good deal to work with them.

What's to loose other than a few hours of work filling out their questionaire about your business?

[soneca]

I understand, but what I am suggesting is looking in their "sold listings" to get a benchmark on how much your startup is worth.

IMO it answers your post question much better than any HN commenter might do (except if a HN commenter is willing to actually buy your startup)

[throwawayValue]

Excellent idea - you sir/ma'am are a genius!!

[codegeek]

I will be careful about SOLD listings there. They never list the actual selling price but only the asking price. So you don't know what the final sale price was.

[brianwawok]

Sold price is a good ceiling best case number, which is somewhat useful still.