Growth
September 2023 XO Recap
Check out the monthly recap report for September 2023.
Danny Chu
Buying, operating and growing SaaS companies
Focus
How to be consistently productive? This is Danny from XO Capital chiming in for this edition of Friday Notes. Productivity is something I've struggled with over the past several years. Shouldn't I have this figured out as a 33-year old? Isn't my job as a founder to be incredibly productive
3 Lessons Operating 5 micro-SaaS Companies in 2022
Hey it's Danny. Happy new year! January 1, 2022 we had 3 full-time employees at XO Capital. Myself, the operator, 1 engineer and 1 support person were operating Sheet.Best, ScreenshotAPI.net and WorkClout. In March 2022 we acquired Inlytics.io. Shortly after, we brought on 2 more full-time engineers
Making freemium work
It's hard to get anyone to pay for something once they've had it for free. Inlytics, ScreenshotAPI.net, Sheet.Best, and now, Cold DM all have one thing in common: Freemium model We believe companies with a PLG model are great acquisition targets for XO. We work to uncover the
WorkClout: Are the free trials working?
👋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 a crowdfunding
WorkClout: First 30 days after acquisition
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 level goals