Headspace to Sword Health: What a 90% Valuation Reset Says About Wellness Apps

Sword Health is reportedly buying Headspace for a fraction of what the meditation app was worth in 2021. It would be easy to read that as one more pandemic-era valuation deflating. I think it is more interesting than that — and the public numbers tell a fairly precise story about why standalone consumer wellness apps don’t hold venture-scale prices.

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The Mobile App Acquisition That Fell Through

Buying an app on Acquire.com sounds simple: find a listing, check the numbers, wire the money. However, I realized that in practice, roughly two-thirds of what’s listed wasn’t worth touching for me, and even the good third would hide problems that you won’t see until you start digging. In this post, I’ll explain how I built a simple acquisition pipeline to run this search, the legal timing challenge that almost stopped my first deal, a fraud signal I almost missed on another listing, and why the first deal fell through anyway.

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A Year In: How I Left My Job to Build a Mental-Health App Studio

This is the first post in a series I planned to write since the beginning of this entrepreneurship journey. Over the next few posts I’m going back through the last twelve months, from May 2025 to now. My goal is not only to share the ups and downs of my new venture in the mobile app world, but also to explain our values and how we approach growth strategies while staying compliant with our ethics. The posts are voluntarily delayed by about a year, so that trade secrets aren’t exposed too quickly.

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Guide marketing automation #6 - Synchronisation entre CRM et Marketing Automation

Lorsque votre organisation dépasse une certaine taille, il sera nécessaire de bien faire communiquer chaque équipe et surtout d’être certain qu’ils ont à leur disposition les mêmes informations. Cette contrainte va poser un besoin technique assez fort, qu’il est utile d’avoir en tête dès le démarrage de votre projet.

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Guide marketing automation #5 - Lead scoring

Lorsque votre génération de leads sera en mode croisière, vous ressentirez peut être le besoin de prioriser le traitement de vos prospects (beaucoup de leads = des leads bons et des leads mauvais). Ainsi, la fonctionnalité de “scoring des leads” va-t-elle vous être utile pour accélerer vos résultats et réduire vos efforts.

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Guide marketing automation #4 - L'automatisation (scénarios / workflows)

Nous passons dans le vif du sujet avec un billet qui aborde LA fonctionnalité clé des outils de marketing automation, j’ai nommé “l’automatisation”. Grâce à elle, votre outil devient une machine à convertir vos “simples” leads en clients grâce à des actions de contact (email, sms, …) que vous définissez. Mais ce n’est pas tout, l’automatisation vous permet tout un éventail d’autres possibilités…

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Elokenz diary - 2019 week 42

Hi everyone, I hope you are not expecting something too formal for this blog post. My aim is to start a series about the relaunch of our startup Elokenz. My goal is to share insider view of what it is to re-build a project on the ashes of the previous version.

What went wrong on the first version?

Well, in the first version of Elokenz nothing really went wrong (at the time of publishing, the tool I’m talking about is still in production). We had early traction, organic customers (word of mouth + interest got us the first dozen of paying customers for free).

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What a Saas Publishing company would look like?

This post is part of a research series I am writing about whether or not, “SaaS Publishers” could exist and help the industry to grow. I eventually want to uncover whether there is business to be made, and if it’s the case… well, there is probably an adventure for bold people. Can a SaaS publishing company be thriving? 🤷‍♂️

If it’s the first time you read a post from this series, here is the list of other posts, I suggest you to read the first one:

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Game publishing for dummies

Let me start with an unusual introduction. This blog post is not for the casual reader. My current goal is not to teach about something I’ve learnt in several years of practice. Instead, during the recent weeks, I became more and more curious about a trend that I have only found in the “arts” (books, movies, games).

This post is part of a research series I am planning to write about the work of a “Publisher”. Since I mostly evolve in the digital world, I will be more specifically interested into game publishers. Who are they? What do they do? Why do people sign with them? What kind of deals exist?

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Les logiciels de marketing automation les plus utilisés en France

Un rapide panorama des outils de marketing automation les plus utilisés en France. Chaque outil est présenté avec une fiche descriptive des ses atouts et inconvénients majeurs ainsi que la cible d’utilisateurs la plus adaptée à son usage. (Si vous souhaitez de l’aide pour la mise en place d’un outil de ce type, n’hésitez pas à me contacter)

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