Walling: TinySeed will generate venture-like returns from $10M–$100M outcomes
Rob Walling · Saas Companies that Anyone Can Start with Rob Walling · Jan 12, 2022 · at 49:46
Rob Walling, co-founder of TinySeed, describes his fund's investment thesis and back-tested financial models targeting bootstrapped SaaS startups.
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“I don't think we will have a billion dollar outcome. I just don't see that being reasonable. I think we'll have a lot of 10 to 50, 10 to a hundred million dollar outcomes, and the number, we've run a bunch of models, and in fact, if you go to tinyc.com slash thesis, you will see my co-founder is a data, was a data scientist, PhD in computer science, and we ran a bunch of back testing on anonymous SAS data. I think it was several thousand companies and looked at our funding approach versus, you know, what it would return, and it will return venture-like returns with I believe lower downside risk”
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