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TinySeed raises $25M to back more bootstrapped startups(axios.com)
63 points by einarvollset 6y ago|15 comments
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State of Independent SaaS 2021(stateofindiesaas.com)
6 points by einarvollset 6y ago|1 comments
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State of Independent SaaS 2021(microconf.com)
220 points by einarvollset 6y ago|44 comments
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TinySeed Applications Are Open(tinyseed.com)
8 points by einarvollset 6y ago|0 comments
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by einarvollset 6y ago
Yeah I remember Chris Sacca at one of our Tuesday dinners saying something like “sorry guys, don’t do this, someone is going to get murdered” Which - to be fair - might have scuppered the company if it had happened early on by chance. Ps Ch
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by einarvollset 6y ago
I can only speak for myself, and it was a feeling of “oh this is a great idea”
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by einarvollset 6y ago
Yep, obviously not to the same degree :)
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by einarvollset 6y ago
I was in the batch with Airbnb. Every batch has practice demo days, and then everyone votes on most likely to succeed. Airbnb had like 3x the number of votes that number 2 had.
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One of the most beautiful charts you’ll ever see (Science FTW)(twitter.com)
2 points by einarvollset 6y ago|0 comments
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by einarvollset 6y ago
A 7x revenue multiple < 15x ebitda multiple with 50+% free cash flows. That’s that most old school investors can’t seem to understand. Weird. Basic math.
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by einarvollset 6y ago
Check out: usesummit.com
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by einarvollset 6y ago
Accredited Investor: Basically $200k annual income or $1m net worth Qualified Client: $2m net worth Qualified Purchaser: $5m in “investments” not including the fund invested into </venture compliance nerdery>
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by einarvollset 6y ago
Seeing how there’s a lot of investment/maths inclined nerds on this thread I will (selfishly..) point out the one key point nobody seems to have picked up on yet: she talks about the importance of diversification. Imho that it is the
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by einarvollset 6y ago
Nice to see applied to a different domain, but this is a reasonably standard randomized Byzantine fault tolerant consensus protocol, or? Nothing wrong with that of course, just curious why it was deemed newsworthy.
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by einarvollset 6y ago
There’s a lot of things I don’t love about startups, the Bay Area, etc. Jessica and Paul (and Trevor!) are definitely among the main reasons why I love those things. There’s hopefully no doubt in anyone of their minds how big an impact they
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by einarvollset 6y ago
This might be interesting to folks: usesummit.com
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An Index into Early Stage B2B SaaS: The TinySeed Investment Thesis(tinyseed.com)
3 points by einarvollset 6y ago|0 comments
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by einarvollset 6y ago
“Ten years ago, the Seed round was a single event, and companies ended up raising a few hundred thousand dollars from angel investors” Well.. 10 years ago there was no “seed” rounds. Airbnb raised a $600k series A right before demo day in ‘
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by einarvollset 6y ago
Relevant: https://tinyseed.com/latest/measuring-the-depth-of-the-softw... (Disclosure: yes I wrote it)
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Quantifying patio11's law: How deep is the software industry iceberg?(tinyseed.com)
16 points by einarvollset 6y ago|0 comments
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by einarvollset 6y ago
So your argument is.. what exactly? 90% of startups fail, so let’s not make any attempts at understanding the trade offs inherent in decisions such as whether to hire, what price to put on things, which sales channel to pursue, what debt in
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by einarvollset 7y ago
The paper uses data from expatriated foreigners from mainland China, so likely a reasonable dataset.
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by einarvollset 7y ago
Killing Parse really surprised me at the time.
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by einarvollset 7y ago
I think it strange that everyone who thinks that repealing prop 13 will magically “fix” housing affordability appears completely ignorant of the fact that most of the western world have effectively zero property taxes.
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by einarvollset 7y ago
This is the kind of thing we fund: tinyseed.com ..though unfortunately we run batches, which may not fit your timeline currently. Working on it..
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by einarvollset 7y ago
Only 58% of tech companies that IPO’ed between 1980 and 2016 received VC funding, so I’m not so sure I’d be quite so dead certain of that.
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Vine founder launches TikTok competitor(byte.co)
254 points by einarvollset 7y ago|156 comments
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by einarvollset 7y ago
And for the record, make sure you keep track of price/earnings vs price/revenue multiples :)
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by einarvollset 7y ago
Compared to public markets yes, but there are 100s of buyers, particularly if you’re (adjusted) EBITDA profitable, but even if just break even.
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by einarvollset 7y ago
Public company multiples, VC investment valuations and lower middle market PE exit multiples are very different markets. The multiples come from direct personal experience.

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