Calm Capital

6 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 31, 2022 by Marty Balkema · said 12 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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May 31, 2022 neutral
Insight
Acquiring small companies requires the same effort as much larger deals
“The same amount of work that it takes to find and acquire and finance you know like wave, the last business, you know, we probably could have done that same amount of work and bought something that was, you know, two or three times As big.”
Marty Balkema May 31, 2022 ▶ 5:34 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Horne & Marty Balkema - Co-founders at Calm Capital
May 31, 2022 positive
Insight
Good cash-flowing businesses rarely fail, but great companies often do
“Good businesses rarely go out of business. Great companies sometimes go out of business, but good businesses rarely go out of business, so, you know, profitable, cash flowing, pretty easy to manage, has, you know, some kind of growth trajectory versus going ba…”
David Horne May 31, 2022 ▶ 3:18 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Horne & Marty Balkema - Co-founders at Calm Capital
May 31, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Calm Capital targets essential operating software rather than optional add-on tools
“I think our ideal business we're learning is, is it needs to be like a, an essential business, like a, like the operating system, not an add-on, if you will. So not a business that people can choose to use or not as a, like as a SaaS tool, but a business that …”
Marty Balkema May 31, 2022 ▶ 6:27 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Horne & Marty Balkema - Co-founders at Calm Capital
May 31, 2022 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Successive stewardship will eventually create 100-year-old SaaS businesses
“There will be a time where you can look at a SaaS company and be like, that's a hundred year old SaaS business, and it's going to take, you know, a bunch of different people to kind of keep that going, and hopefully continue to add value to the community it se…”
David Horne May 31, 2022 ▶ 25:32 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Horne & Marty Balkema - Co-founders at Calm Capital
May 31, 2022
Disclosure
Calm Capital acquired four digital micro-businesses in two years
“And then since then, in the last two years, we've We funded a Shopify app business. We bought a WordPress theme business. We bought a content UI design business subscription business. And then last year we bought a SAS company that helps audio creators market …”
Marty Balkema May 31, 2022 ▶ 2:29 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Horne & Marty Balkema - Co-founders at Calm Capital
May 31, 2022
Disclosure
Calm Capital negotiated the entire Wave acquisition over a shared Slack channel
“We negotiated the entire deal directly with them over Slack. So after the first call, we started a Slack channel shared Slack channel, and we started I mean, I don't know, probably, David, from, what, Thanksgiving to the end of March is when we closed, so, you…”
Marty Balkema May 31, 2022 ▶ 18:18 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Horne & Marty Balkema - Co-founders at Calm Capital
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