First off. This is not legal advice, or advice at all. These are the uninformed opinions of a dude in his early (mid?) 30s okay, so like please disregard. P.S. Don't worry, XO is not going off and doing random crypto stuff now, we're still
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I don't know where March went. Partially bc I went on a vacation (WUT!?!). Danny held the fort down and I figured out how to do async tech diligence. Also discovered I'm useless without my 3 monitor (+iPad for meetings) set up. Yes I know how
I remember pitching a machine learning company 6 ish years ago and all the VC folks wanted to talk about were moats. What's your moat? Do you have a data moat? How easy would it be for competitors to get access to the data you have? It turns
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This week, we acquired inlytics.io, a LinkedIn analytics tool focused on helping companies view and optimize their content performance. Pretty neat. This is the first acquisition with serious platform risk. It took me (personally) a good month to get comfortable with this. As an indie hacker, these types of
AKA perhaps why ByteDance is worth $400B. The SSP has also brought together other important teams: user-growth teams, which help identify and acquire desired users; content teams, which establish partnerships to acquire new content; analytics teams, which help to develop deeper user insights; and sales teams, which drive monetization. -
Here is our live tech diligence doc for you to use as you see fit! Tech DiligencePlease cover as many of the following items as possible in video format, showing as much code as possible and where relevant, showing the code, and then the corresponding UI. Don’t worry about
Thanks so much for those of you who helped me workshop this new model over the past few weeks, I really appreciated the honest feedback and the tough questions. Once again, this post is not a solicitation of investment, but a dialog about our fundraising process and experience. For those
We're raising capital for the first time to fund a new acquisition. This post is not a solicitation of investment, but a dialog about our fundraising process and experience. Sorry for the clickbait. The title is aspirational. If you are able to fundraise like a Roman God, please
👋XO Capital is now ready to take on external investors! We have 2 deals nearly ready to send out. If you're interested in learning more about participating, please send a note to andrew at xoxo.capital. One will be for accredited investors only, and the other will be
WorkClout was XO's first non-self service, non product-led growth purchase. As a result, the first 30 days since purchase have looked quite different in comparison to Sheet.best or Screenshot API (a more in-depth post on this topic coming soon). On Day 0, I jotted down some high
This post lays out our vision in the hopes that one day you'll invest with us. Whenever I'm about to have this conversation I always say up front that I'm not against venture capital. Like all financial instruments, venture has a time and a
We're going to do a monthly wrap up and write them as if you're invested along with us. Maybe one day soon you will :) Someone proposed an interesting question last week about how many of Screenshot APIs subscribers also subscribe to Sheet.best. sheet.best has