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John Hainstock

M&A Advisor, Quiet Light Brokerage. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Jon Hainstock co-founded and bootstrapped ZoomShift, an hourly employee scheduling software company, growing it until its acquisition by Ramp Ventures in early 2020. He now works as an M&A advisor at Quiet Light, guiding founders through valuations, due diligence, and sales of digital assets and SaaS businesses.

What they said5 Shows1

Everything John Hainstock said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Insight

Hainstock: Mature bootstrappers face a choice between aggressive reinvestment and exiting

“I find a lot of other folks that I speak with now kind of getting to that point where it's either doubled on what we're doing and what's working and invest a lot more resource into it. Take less profit, build a team, invest, and kind of assume that risk yourse…”

John Hainstock Aug 1, 2023 ▶ 7:46 Episode 672 | Bootstrapping, Building, Buying, and Selling SaaS C...

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Insight

Hainstock: $20K–$40K assets offer sweet spot for acquisition entrepreneurship

“I think it's a great way to test out Entrepreneurship through acquisition. It's kind of in that, you know, 2030, 40 K range is a great sweet spot to find something.”

John Hainstock Aug 1, 2023 ▶ 18:06 Episode 672 | Bootstrapping, Building, Buying, and Selling SaaS C...

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Insight

Hainstock: Buyers of small cash-flow acquisitions effectively get the codebase for free

“I think one of the big benefits too, that a lot of people may miss is that you were essentially buying cash flows. And so you're getting the code, you're getting the product, the marketing kind of Base of it for free in a sense, because you're buying a multipl…”

John Hainstock Aug 1, 2023 ▶ 30:58 Episode 672 | Bootstrapping, Building, Buying, and Selling SaaS C...

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Hainstock: ZoomShift had six-figure revenue, low churn, and profitability when sold in 2020

“Yeah, so we were profitable. We were both working full-time on it. We had a full-time customer support person doing six figures in, in revenue, and things were really pretty stable overall. Churn was low. Growth was like slow but steady.”

John Hainstock Aug 1, 2023 ▶ 5:52 Episode 672 | Bootstrapping, Building, Buying, and Selling SaaS C...

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Insight

Hainstock: Business sale preparation should start six to twelve months before listing

“There's a lot of things that go into that, that, that do look more like an advisor, you know, trying to prepare your business for sale before you sell, right? Not just at the moment that you are going to market, but like six months, a year in advance what shou…”

John Hainstock Aug 1, 2023 ▶ 28:36 Episode 672 | Bootstrapping, Building, Buying, and Selling SaaS C...

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens John's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF USLEDGER	M&A Advisor, Quiet Light Brokerage	1	5	—	full record on Startups For the Rest of Us →