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Bennett: David Cummings Was the First Investor in Calendly
“He's like the starter of, like, he started, like, Pardot sales, technically, SalesLoft, Rigger. He's the first investor in Calendly. Like, you name the company, Terminus.”
Calderon: Bootstrapped, scaled, and sold three businesses by age 27
“I've built Bootstrap, scaled, and sold three businesses by the age of 27 years old, most recently being StratDev.”
Miller's side hustle mold remediation business expanded to six US locations
“Started a side hustle doing mold remediation of all things, so black mold that's in people's homes. Did that on the side out of my garage. Flash forward four years later, we have six locations and we're all over the United States”
Oshinaike: Street Tag launched initially as a hardware, not software, platform
“Initially we were actually a hardware, not a software based platform.”
Arun: Traditionally 80% of Indian small businesses are family-driven
“India has not been India's traditionally like business small scale, family driven businesses, 80% of them are Indian small scale. They've all come from family roots. It has always been there in the family, right? Startup culture was not the norm those days.”
Umar Khan: ChatFi was acquired on Acquire.com
“Later on, ah, we built another product, and ChatFi is our third product, and that recently got acquired on acquired.com.”
Aiello: DimeADozen Co-Founders Met Through YC Co-Founder Match
“Dime a Dozen is really the first time that I did it not by myself, because I actually did it with a co-founder Monica Powers, that we hooked up through actually YC Co-Founder Match, And just noodled on ideas, and one of them happened to be dime a dozen.”
Gethers: Legacy admissions consultants charged over $300 an hour
“Legacy admission consultants were charging north of 300 dollars an hour”
Sanchez's current startup Educately raised over $2M and scaled to 50 employees
“Which is called Educately. Still running it. I'm still the chief revenue officer of the company. We raised over two million dollars in that one. I was still scaling it, a team of 50, going very well.”
Kirkovska: Intersect Labs sold its no-code analytics tool to Zapier in 2021
“We built a no-code software for data analytics, which we actually sold to Zapier in twenty-twenty-one.”
Most no-code platforms restrict users from exporting their underlying code
“Most no code tools don't let you extract that code out.”
Ezeike: UK Stripe accounts cannot directly transfer to US buyers
“Because the Stripe was registered in the UK, you can't just transfer over to the US, you have to actually then create a new US one, and then Do this manual transfer thing, which I didn't know about before.”
Ezeike: .com domains on Google Domains require 60 days before transfer
“Then with the second acquisition, there was Google domains, like a .com. You can't transfer it below 60 days. It has 60 days have to have come past before you can transfer that.”
Sahlmer: SaaS Group Has Acquired Seven Businesses
“So in the meantime, we've acquired seven businesses.”
Andrew Gazdecki: MicroAcquire hosts between 500 and 1,000 SaaS business listings
“Cause there's, you know, 500 plus SaaS businesses on my career.
I'm probably like a thousand”
Tung: Existing Shopify apps lacked Slack UTM and coupon tracking
“There was no way for you to get UTM tracking specifically, and like coupon code redemption data in in your Slack channel from Shopify. There were a lot of apps out there that would do light Shopify to Slack integration, but not what I needed”