{"id":19995,"date":"2022-11-29T11:27:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T01:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/?p=19995"},"modified":"2023-12-19T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T05:55:28","slug":"humans-of-flippa-john-chen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/humans-of-flippa-john-chen\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning a $7K Acquisition into almost half a $500K Exit with John Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scaling Ecommerce Stores over, and over again.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>John Chen acquired a small eEcommerce site for $7k on Flippa. Not long after, he turned around and sold it on Flippa for nearly half a million dollars. Now he\u2019s onto an even bigger deal. His insights into eCommerce are critical for anyone looking to buy and scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Turning a $7K Acquisition into almost half a $1M Exit | Humans of Flippa\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/df739pLF7hQ?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about John Chen&#8217;s Ecommerce acquisition journey <a href=\"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/how-to-buy-a-business-with-no-money\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/category\/humans-of-flippa\/\">Watch more Humans of Flippa stories here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scaling Ecommerce Stores over, and over again. John Chen acquired a small eEcommerce site for $7k on Flippa. Not long after, he turned around and sold it on Flippa for nearly half a million dollars. Now he\u2019s onto an even bigger deal. His insights into eCommerce are critical for anyone looking to buy and scale. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":25129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,506],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24491,"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19995\/revisions\/24491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19995"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=19995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}