ScaleFactor

“So the most recently announced one is a small company in Austin That people probably haven't heard of yet called scale factor, which I firmly believe will be a household name in the coming years.”

“I had a company in high school, it's a landscape lighting company. And so at that Well, not a tech company. What I was trying to do is solve a real time inventory environment. So I had a garage full of inventory and I had a QuickBooks desktop computer and I wa…”

“There's twenty-nine million small businesses just here in the U.S. I think that it's a variety of key players looking to evolve, and if anything, this is going to be a strong partnership market before it would ever be a winner-take-all market.”

“We set out to raise a million dollars. We ended up oversubscribing that round to three and a half”

“There's folks that have joined scale factor that I've been recruiting for upwards of four years.”

“It's my boardroom. It's a founder's boardroom. It's a CEO's boardroom. And so, you've got to take control, and you've got to build a team around that.”

“It's important that you show the data which you're operating off of, and then you can bring in the human empathy and, you know, relational component, and if you can Keep those separate. It does wonders for how people are, will self-correct, and they'll realize…”

“We've been around for six years, And so you could say that it actually took a long, long time to fundraise venture-backed dollars. It took three years to do that before we were operating for three years before I ever took any type of venture money.”

“Our B and C rounds were preempted.”

“If you have too much space, the energy level is not there. Obviously, if you don't have enough space, the energy level is there. It's just not the right type of energy you're wanting.”

“It's my job to make sure that the board and that the investors are continually working for the company. And quite frankly, I kind of view it as a competition for their time, right? They've got other portfolio companies, and I want to make sure that they're spe…”

“A great team, I have a saying and a philosophy that the great team is always throttled at between 80 to 130%. You can't run at 130% forever because you really start to break things. You can't run at 80% forever because then you become complacent and you might …”

“Byron would tell you, and I think Thomas from KOTU as well as, you know, as we were going through the partner meeting process, it was, you know, they're sending a zoom link over and saying, Hey, you know, just zoom in at this time. And that'll be that. And I s…”