Journey to Raising Discretionary Capital offers an insightful peek into the process of raising $650k for the first Flip Fund. Andrew Pierno shares his learnings and the steps they took, including writing a weekly blog post for three years, doing ten deals nearly bankrupting himself
Spotify Amazon Apple Listen: Watch: Having an audience is insanely powerful. We got nearly $500k of soft commits in <2 weeks. I have: * ~10k followers Twitter * ~11k followers Linkedin * ~800 on this email list. The only one I trust though is this email list. Twitter ... god knows what will
💡This post is not a solicitation for investment, but a documentation of our journey raising a fund. Not enough content is out there around tactically how to do this. Hopefully I can change that just a little. Watch: Listen: Spotify Amazon Apple Because I'm a glutton for punishment,
Spotify Amazon Apple Watch https://youtu.be/AuPTqBWt-2U Listen The secret elephant in the room of generative AI apps is that almost everyone is seeing insanely high churn levels https://t.co/jUfE1TX8Ws — @levelsio (@levelsio) June 1, 2023 Saas is changing. As we head into a tougher economic environment, I&
Spotify Amazon Apple This week I just recorded our partner meeting and we just jump right into it. In hindsight I probably should have recorded an intro! Watch: Listen: We are still completing handoff of our largest acquisition to date but were to excited to hold off announcing it for
Spotify Amazon Apple 💡This is just a concept, we're neither raising $ nor soliciting investment. Watch: Listen: I tried to raise $ for a fund for XO once. I failed. Failure To RaiseAt the beginning of the month we decided to go out and try to raise $1M inequity into
Listen: Spotify Amazon Apple Watch: Feeling poetic. apologies in advance. Also speaking of waiting, my Linkedin account got suspended at 10k followers ... not sure what I violated this time but very glad to also be building this newsletter. Platform risk is stressful. There's a prevalent myth that success
Spotify Amazon Apple Watch: Listen: This week we completed the acquisition of what was formerly MailBoat and now userping.io Userping - Send Emails easilyUserping makes it easy to send emails to your customers with a simple rich text editorUserpingSaaS Founders, 2023 What's the bet here? This is
Watch: Listen: Spotify Amazon Apple We are in the middle of our 9th acquisition (to be announced later). It's not another AI tool although we have 2 of those under LOI right now. So what's going on here? Does XO buy profitable boring saas companies or
Spotify Amazon Apple Listen: Watch: https://youtu.be/JbIkoGGhoak Like much of the rest of the world, we're experimenting with AI generated content. Last week, we bought Supportguy.co and needed some blog posts. We used this process to create the first 5 blog posts to seed our
We delve into acquisition #8 - SupportGuy.co, a micro SaaS that is set to revolutionize customer support with its AI-powered chatbot. This acquisition aligns with our vertical integration strategy, to own and optimize all tools we use to manage our portfolio.
Spotify Amazon Apple Listen: Watch: We're supposed to be buying boring SaaS businesses that cash flow slowly and consistently. On the small end of the market, that's a little challenging to do. Often, the way that plays out is buying a small B2B enterprise SaaS company