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September 2023 XO Recap
Check out the monthly recap report for September 2023.
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March 2022
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
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Acquisition #6 - Inlytics.io
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
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XO Capital - 2021 In Review
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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Acquisition #5 - Workclout.com 🔨
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
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Our First Exit!
If you're here for numbers, I apologize. Perhaps in a later post I can share them but for now, the story will have to be enough. This week marks the first time XO has ever bought, operated, and sold a company. This isn't a celebratory post
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The Economics of Micro SaaS
Not all SaaS companies have equal margins. Today I wanted to go through each of our products and talk through net margins. It's useful to get a sense of what margins could look like. I also threw in a small productized service to compare it against.