Indie.vc

“Our companies are kind of the default we set is like, let's have that be the last round you need to raise. And then you can kind of be a lot more offensive as you build your company. So you don't necessarily need anybody else's permission to exist.”

“I think about one percent of tech startups should consider raising venture, I think about nine percent should consider raising what I call indie funding, which is Tiny Seed, Indie.VC, Upeka, and the other Alt-VC funds that you might hear about, and then 90% sh…”

“Is to make the economics work, it will have to be different than, certainly than Silicon Valley, but even than, like, the tiny seeds in the indie.vcs, you would be at a level, I would say a level lower, just in valuations, in order to make the economics ever w…”

“They funded 40 companies, so you don't, you know, you can't say nothing good came out of it, but the fact that it's shutting down only six years after it started, I think it's a bummer.”

“Given how early we invest, and so Indy usually invested later than us, given how early we invest, you just kind of need to be an equity investor, and you need to sort of allow, basically to not allow founders to buy back equity. And, you know, we get, as you g…”

“There's all, it's not binary anymore. Bootstrap versus venture. It's I can bootstrap. I can do one round. I can take money from tiny seed. I can take money from Indie.bc. I can do revenue based financing if I get to the point where that makes sense, or I can t…”