Bootstrapping Your Startup to Acquisition with Einar Vollset from TinySeed | Podcast #7 [SDI]

Published: May 14, 2020, 8:50 p.m.

b'Einar (https://twitter.com/einarvollset (@einarvollset)) is currently the Co-Founder and General Partner at Tinyseed, a remote-based startup accelerator designed for early stage, bootstrapped SaaS Founders which provides funding, community, guidance, advice and mentorship.\\n\\nHe is also the Managing Partner of Discretion Capital, a technology enabled Investment Bank focused on MandA, due diligence and strategic partnership development for tech and technology enabled services businesses.\\n\\nEinar was a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He is a serial entrepreneur who founded many companies like ReMail which was acquired by Google in 2010, Octopus Mercantile, and AppAftercare, a company which was built from scratch, with zero outside funding, which was completely bootstrapped from zero revenue until acquisition in 2016.\\n\\nEinar was also CEO at Left Coast RandD, and an advisor at Trigger.io and Biomeme.\\n\\nDuring this interview we cover:\\n\\n\\n Exiting to big corporations like Google\\n\\n Managing the investment strategy during a crisis\\n\\n The importance of having a specific investment criteria and what he looks for in funding startups\\n\\n Initial traction and acceleration programs\\n\\n Benefits of Bootstrapping vs. VC funding of your startup\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nLinks and mentions:\\n\\n\\n https://tinyseed.com/ (Tinyseed.com)\\n\\n https://www.discretioncapital.com/ (Discretioncapital.com)\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nGet in touch with Einar:\\n\\n\\n \\U0001f426Twitter: https://twitter.com/einarvollset\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nMore about Akeel:\\n\\n\\U0001f426 Twitter - https://twitter.com/AkeelJabber (https://twitter.com/AkeelJabber)\\n\\n\\U0001f4bc LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/akeel-jabbar (https://linkedin.com/in/akeel-jabbar)\\n\\n\\U0001f508 More Podcast Sessions - https://horizencapital.com/saas-podcast (https://horizencapital.com/saas-podcast)\\n\\n\\n--- \\n\\nSend in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/saas-district/message'