Had an action packed week this week including listing one of our companies for sale, but I'll leave that for another post. Those of you wondering when the heck we're going to syndicate our first deal, please bear with us, we've been super close
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Danny and Andrew chat about operating our latest acquisitions. Subscribe! Spotify Amazon Apple # Fund Stuff - Episode 8 [00:00:00] **Andrew Pierno:** Sweet. All right. So the podcast, I called it fun stuff. I think it's episode seven or eight. We're not sure, but anyways,
Happy New Year everyone! Hope your 2022 is off to a great start. 2021 was a roller coaster to say the least. Some of the highs included: 1. The birth of my wife and I’s first child. 2. Helping my previous startup get through Y-Combinator, raise a $3million seed
I hate losing. I do. It's a character flaw that sounds cool but mostly manifests in stupid ways like trying to beat your sister at UNO on Christmas. But we are here to win. It's worth it to spend a few moments looking at how deals
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XO was started in the summer of 2020. It was in the wake of a failed venture backed company where I was CTO for several years. In addition to the (concurrent) medical shit I was dealing with, it was one of the toughest periods of my life (so far!). Having
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We bought another YC company (for clarity, we bought the assets of Workclout Inc. The corporation was acquired by Luxury Presence in a separate transaction.) The last time we bought a YC company('s assets) I spent more time thinking how cool it would be to buy a YC
When we were doing diligence on Sentiment Investor (acq #4) I knew I was going to have to rebuild the thing from scratch. Spending $1400 a month just on Firebase hurts my soul and the whole architecture was super google-ed out (i.e. expensive). For context, Sentiment Investor scrapes social
Sentiment Investor is XO Capital's 4th Acquisition! Three weeks ago, we purchased sentimentinvestor.com. It was created by a team of university students in the UK who had already monetized it a bit. I've been keeping an eye on this space for some time and felt
Structuring deals isn't my strong suit. I don't have enough reps yet. Luckily, there's a gentleman on our team who does! Henry's background is in private equity. He can run through financials like nobody's business and come out on the
Buy products, sell companies Sorry for the cheesy ass stock photo. There's a special place in my heart where this shit will never not be funny. This is going to be an open, stream of consciousness piece about whether we should buy 2 companies we have in the
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How To Sell A Micro SaaS Company This post will take the perspective of a founder looking to sell their (micro) SaaS company. We've been on both sides of the table, most recently selling one of our portfolio companies on Micro Acquire.
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Audio Spotify Amazon Apple [00:00:00] Andrew Pierno: All right. Fund stuff. Episode seven. I didn't think we'd make it to seven. To be honest, I thought I'd do like two or three and then, forget about it. But anyways, I'm