TinySeed
also referred to as: tiny seed
includes TinySeed Fund 2, TinySeed EMEA Program
293 statements across 141 episodes · 95 bullish · 48 bearish · 16 people on the record · first statement Mar 10, 2020 by Tracy Osborn · said 1,351 times in 205 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Rob Walling (1147), Tracy Osborn (66), Harris Kenny (14), Einar Vollset (14), Derrick Reimer (12), Tony Chan (11), Courtland Allen (9), Matt Wensing (7)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2025 265 mentions in 27 episodes 10 per episode
- Episode 748 | The Ins and Outs of Startup Investing
- Episode 789 | TinySeed Tales s5e1: From Agency to SaaS
- Episode 792 | Hot Take Tuesday: GPT-5 Struggles, the A.I. Bubble,...
- Episode 787 | "We Shut Down a $1.5M Product, and Raised $10M Inst...
- Episode 783 | Bootstrapping ScrapingBee to $5M ARR and an 8-Figur...
- Episode 798 | Lessons From 10 Years of SaaS Growth Without a Hock...
- Episode 750 | Making Your First Hire, Testing Prices, And More Li...
- Episode 797 | TinySeed Tales s5e5: Should I Raise More Funding?
- 19 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 306 mentions in 51 episodes 6 per episode
- Episode 729 | 9 Things I've Learned Investing in 170+ SaaS Compan...
- Episode 703 | The Accidental SaaS Entrepreneur
- Episode 744 | Bluesky, TinySeed is Raising, YC Backs Competitors,...
- Episode 728 | Bootstrapping Gymdesk to a More Than $32.5M Exit
- Episode 712 | Revisiting Burnout + Updates on My Progress in 2024...
- Episode 707 | Once.com, Open Source to FT Income, and More (Hot T...
- Episode 739 | Selling SaaS to Customers Who Don't Know They Have...
- Episode 727 | Gymdesk Sells for More than $32.5 million, Hiring G...
- 43 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 209 mentions in 39 episodes 5 per episode
- Episode 647.5 | Bonus Episode: TinySeed Application Q&A Livestrea...
- Episode 674 | SparkToro Pays Back Investors, When to Raise Fundin...
- Episode 693 | Building a Mid-Six-Figure SaaS in Less Than 3 Years
- Episode 659 | Indie Hackers' Newfound Independence + The SaaS Pla...
- Episode 692 | Learn the Rules Like a Pro So You Can Break Them Li...
- Episode 689 | How to Keep Your Remote Team Motivated and Engaged
- Episode 652 | Mixing No-code with Code, Developer Superpowers, $5...
- Episode 663 | 5 Insights SaaS Founders Should Know About A.I. (Ig...
- 31 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 53 mentions in 10 episodes 5 per episode
- Episode 588 | In Which Courtland Allen and I Cover a Lot of Startups Topics
- Episode 640 | Hot Take Tuesday: Recession and Bootstrappers, Chat...
- Episode 625 | TinySeed Tales s3e4: Doubling MRR
- Episode 635 | Where Are They Now? Catching up with TinySeed Tales...
- Episode 641 | Dealing with High Churn, Rolling Out an MVP, and Mo...
- Episode 639 | The Secret Sauce to Building Happy, Motivated Teams
- Episode 631 | Re-writing Your Codebase, Stair Stepping, and Diffi...
- Episode 638 | How to Generate Startup Ideas (Plus 8 Ideas You Can...
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 302 mentions in 37 episodes 8 per episode
- Episode 562.5 | TinySeed Fall 2021 SaaS Accelerator Application Info Session
- Episode 558 | Thinking Through Funding as a Bootstrapper
- Episode 542 | 10x in Two Years, Past $3M ARR with SquadCast
- Episode 540 | Bootstrapper News. Twitter Spaces, Indie.vc Closing, Shopify, and More
- Episode 550 | Three Years of Grind to Six Figures in ARR with CloudForecast
- Episode 560 | When to Hire, Square Business Banking, and More Bootstrapper News
- 553: Stack Overflow and Moz Acquired, Quitting Instead of Giving Up Remote Work, and More
- Episode 562 | "Measure Twice, Cut Once" + SaaS Holy Grails (A Rob Solo Adventure)
- 29 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 211 mentions in 39 episodes 5 per episode
- Episode 504 | 15 Tools We Use to Run Our Business
- Episode 517 | Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product
- Episode 502 | Accelerating Growth and a Failed Product Hunt Launch
- Episode 511 | Raising Prices & Re-writing Your Codebase
- Episode 521 | A Roundtable Discussion about a Potential Recession, Working from Home,
- Episode 497 | Documenting SaaS for a Sale, Email Harvesting and Spam, and More Listener Questions
- TinySeed Tales Season 2 | Episode 1: Introducing Gather
- Episode 516 | When to Re-write Your SaaS Codebase
- 31 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
Everything said about TinySeed, oldest first
Mar 10, 2020 bullish
Osborn: TinySeed Bets on Proliferating B2B SaaS Micro-Applications
“This is kind of Tiny Seeds thesis, right? We're betting on these business-to-business SaaS apps. We love to see people building things for other businesses to use, and it's definitely, that's, we're part of this trend that's happening right now, wherever, ther…”
Apr 21, 2020 bearish
Apr 28, 2020 neutral
Walling: Early 2020 SaaS portfolios saw 20% tank, 20% boom, 60% plateau
“So I have insight into, like, direct financials of, it depends on how you count it, but it's about 35, 36 companies across TinySeed batches and angel investments I made before TinySeed. And what kind of the loose pattern I'm seeing is there's about 20% of thes…”
Jun 4, 2020 positive
Walling: Early personal liquidity enables founders to take bigger long-term risks
“Having a small win early on and getting to some money that is in your bank account where you can then take bigger risks. Like I'm now in the position where I can just take bigger risks and I can grow a tiny seed, which is not going to really pay me much of any…”
Jun 9, 2020 positive
Suhm: TinySeed backed WP Pusher after Walling passed in 2015
“Five years ago in 2015, I pitched him on investing in WP pusher when I hit one K. And the funny thing is I got a very nice reply back that said, Congrats on the progress. Hit me up when you reached 10 K, but today Rob is kind of actually an investor in WP push…”
Jun 23, 2020
Jun 23, 2020
Jul 7, 2020
Jul 7, 2020 neutral
TinySeed processed 900 initial fund applications using Squarespace, Zapier, and Sheets
“Because our first round of applications was an embedded Squarespace form that went into a Google spreadsheet that pretty soon had 900 rows in it with 30 columns, and then we had to hook into Zapier to send a confirmation.”
Jul 7, 2020 negative
Rob Walling critiques LastPass usability but notes high switching costs
“Usability is getting better, but it's not great. And then it does have some weird edge case bugs. And since you're not paying that much for it, the support's not great. Like I do have, of all the tools we mentioned so far, LastPass is the one that I'm kind of …”
Jul 21, 2020
Sep 1, 2020 positive
Sep 1, 2020 negative
Traditional venture funding restricts founder optionality around dividends and LLCs
“I was writing angel checks to startup founders who didn't want to take venture funding because it put them on a path and it reduced the options they had. They could no longer pull out dividends. They couldn't have an LLC. You know, there were just certain thin…”
Sep 8, 2020 positive
TinySeed founder sold for 10x revenue despite being under $100K ARR
“I'll keep some folks anonymous up for obvious reasons, but through stuff we've worked on, you know, with tiny seed, I know of a founder who got an offer and accepted it for, it was 10 X revenue and his revenue was approaching six figures ARR. He was still in f…”
Sep 10, 2020 positive
Sep 10, 2020 neutral
Sep 10, 2020 neutral
Sep 22, 2020
Sep 22, 2020
Walling: B2B SaaS founders should approach sales calls like unpaid expert consultants
“If you're selling B to B SaaS, especially to more higher priced customers, which if you're having one on one conversations that you should be charging enough to make that worth your while, think of yourself as a high priced consultant who isn't charging any mo…”
Sep 29, 2020 positive
Sep 29, 2020 neutral
Walling: Dharmesh Shah, Rand Fishkin, and Patrick McKenzie are TinySeed LPs
“If you decide to invest, you'll be joining folks like Dharmesh Shah, co-founder of HubSpot, Rand Fishkin, Founder of SparkToro, Steli Efti, co-founder of Close.com, and Patrick McKenzie, who many of you know as PatioEleven on the internet.”
Sep 29, 2020 bullish
Walling: Early-stage independent B2B SaaS yields amazing investor returns
“We believe investing broadly into the earliest stages of B to B SaaS companies, and specifically it's the B to B SaaS companies who are not necessarily reliant on traditional venture capital, right? It's the startups for the rest of us, the micro-conf type com…”
Sep 29, 2020
Walling: Five of his 35 portfolio startups requested full codebase rewrites
“I'm 35 angel invest, you know, angel and tiny seed investments in, and I've had at least, I'll say four, four or five of the startups that I kind of advise or interact with say, I want to rewrite, we need to rewrite our code base.”
Oct 22, 2020 neutral
TinySeed early COVID portfolio: 15% struggled, 70% plateaued, 15% accelerated
“When I look across the portfolio of companies that are part of Tiny Seed's first two batches, or that I've invested in personally, it looks like they're about 15% that are having real struggles with the impact of the pandemic on the industry they serve. Anothe…”
Nov 3, 2020 bullish
Nov 3, 2020 negative
Walling: US VC Funds Over $10M Are Capped at 99 Accredited Investors
“If you raise a, essentially a venture fund, which is what Tiny Seed's raising, and you have, you're raising more than ten million dollars, the highest number of investors you can have in that fund, these are accredited investors, who are, you know, loosely eit…”
Nov 10, 2020 positive
Walling: Castos doubled team and tripled revenue without extra funding
“Before season one of Tiny Seed Tales, before we, as we started recording it, you were at four full-time employees, now you're at eight, and you tripled in revenue. You were already into five figures of monthly revenue when the season started, and then over the…”
Nov 18, 2020 positive
Walling: All 13 TinySeed Batch 2 portfolio companies are default alive
“The vast majority are already default alive businesses. I think every one of the 13 companies of batch two is default alive. Pretty sure. And The, if I were to put a number in it, 70% of batch one, maybe 80% are default to live.”
Dec 22, 2020 positive
Walling: Startup financing is no longer binary between bootstrapping and VC
“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…”
Feb 16, 2021 positive
TinySeed Paused Fund 2 for Two Months at COVID-19's Onset
“We started raising tiny seed fund two. We're going to start raising it in March Of 20 20, and we had all the assets and everything ready to start pitching it, and this happened, and everything just locked up, and we wound up waiting one month or maybe two to s…”
Feb 23, 2021 positive
Mar 2, 2021
Vollset: Enterprise security reviews signal that price is immaterial to buyers
“If they're having you jump through the hoops of doing this kind of security assessment, then price is immaterial to them for all intents and purposes. If you at the end of that sell them something that's 29 dollars a month or 79 dollars a month, then you're pr…”
Mar 16, 2021 negative
Mar 16, 2021 neutral
Vollset: Early-stage funds cannot allow equity buybacks due to portfolio math
“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…”
Mar 30, 2021
Apr 6, 2021 positive
Apr 6, 2021 positive
Walling: Pricing is the single biggest growth lever in SaaS
“When folks come into the tiny seed batches within the first few weeks, I mean, that's the biggest lever in SaaS, right? Is, is pricing. You know, you don't need to build new features. You don't need to get more leads. You can, Double growth if you were to doub…”
May 18, 2021
CloudForecast turned down LAUNCH after multiple accelerator rejections in 2018–2019
“So let's go through YC interviewed for YC in 2018 rejected interviewed for tiny seed 2019 rejected applied interviewed For Indie.VC, Ernest Capital, Techstars, Chicago, and Boulder rejected. But in 2019 as well, you applied and interviewed for launch, and you …”
May 18, 2021 neutral
Jun 1, 2021 positive
Walling: Silicon Valley Bank Underwrote Founder Mortgages Using 1099 Income
“A couple founders, someone had their mortgage lender, like, back out on them, 20 minutes before their close, and he had to go to Silicon Valley Bank, because they understand founders, and that's, they know what 10 99 income is, and they know what, you know, al…”
Jun 8, 2021 positive
Jun 8, 2021 positive
Jul 13, 2021 neutral
Jul 13, 2021 negative
Walling: Info products fail to scale like SaaS due to key-person dependency
“Because they don't scale like SaaS, because they're often reliant on a single individual, not all the time, but often reliant on a personality or a personal brand. And the exit multiples aren't there, right? I mean, that's a part of why this works is that SaaS…”
Jul 13, 2021 neutral
Jul 13, 2021
Walling: TinySeed was created because Drip needed a quick $200k infusion
“One of the reasons I started TinySeed is I wanted this fund to exist for me, because during the drip years, we needed money and we were doing all types of crazy stuff to cut costs. And it was super stressful. And I wanted to really quickly raise A couple hundr…”
Jul 13, 2021 negative
Walling: Founders aiming for modest exits shouldn't take venture capital
“If you're going to take funding to be like,
Hey, I would sell if I got an offer for twenty million, right?
To be upfront about that, and if the investor doesn't want to invest, then I don't think you should take the money, because you're going to have this con…”
Jul 13, 2021 neutral
Aug 10, 2021
Aug 16, 2021 negative
Aug 16, 2021
Aug 16, 2021 positive
Aug 16, 2021
Aug 16, 2021 positive
Aug 16, 2021 positive
Aug 16, 2021 neutral
Aug 16, 2021 neutral
Aug 16, 2021 positive
Aug 16, 2021 neutral
Walling: TinySeed only backs founders targeting $1M to $30M ARR
“One of the questions I ask is, do you want to build a seven or eight figure ARR SaaS company? Meaning, do you want to build a one to thirty million dollar, you know, bootstrap, mostly bootstrap SaaS company? The answer is yes, then, you know, then let's talk a…”
Aug 16, 2021 positive
Walling: TinySeed investment terms are modeled on Rand Fishkin's structure
“The terms themselves, the core of them were they came, Rand Fishkin, founder of Moz, left his venture-funded startup, came up with these terms for his next startup. So it's like, by definition, a founder came up with it for himself when he raised money. I had …”
Aug 16, 2021 bullish
Walling: TinySeed fourth batch pushes portfolio past 60 SaaS startups
“With this batch, this is our fourth batch we're funding, we're going to be north of 60 companies funded, and these are ambitious B to B SaaS startups, you know, in the six and seven figures of annual recurring revenue, and they're all, they're not venture trac…”
Aug 16, 2021
Aug 16, 2021 positive
Aug 16, 2021 neutral
Aug 16, 2021 bullish
Osborn: TinySeed is raising a dedicated UK and European fund
“We're in the process of raising our European fund, which is specifically going to we, I can say that right. I was just making sure I was like, oh no, we're live. So yeah, we're raising this fund so we can have tiny seed Europe and UK. And so we can invest dire…”
Aug 16, 2021 positive
Walling: 20% to 40% of startups see hockey-stick growth after pricing module
“About between 20 and 40% of the companies, if we look back to the month, the day, the week that we do the pricing talk, within a few weeks, it's a, I forget the expression, it's like a hockey, you know, it's a hockey stick, it's a bootstrapper hockey stick, ri…”
Sep 14, 2021
Early-stage startup founders should collectively own 80 to 90 percent of equity
“Like the founders in an early stage company like this, raising a really a first or second round, pre-seed and accelerated round, a seed round. The founder should own 80, 90% of the company, you know, between that, if it's one or three or five, whatever. I mean…”
Jan 31, 2022
Walling: Email startups face phishing attacks upon reaching $20K MRR
“When you get any modicum of success, I mean, we have tiny seed companies who, by the time they hit 20 K MRR, 25 K, so it's still relatively small. If they send any type of email, if there's any type of email sending capability, like people start targeting them…”
Jan 31, 2022 neutral
Aug 16, 2022 positive
Walling found quarterly retreats are too frequent for remote startup founders
“And what we found with our first batch is they, we got to the third one, and people were like, this is too often. It was actually, it was literally too often, and I had no idea that that would be the case. It is about, this cadence of about every six months se…”
Sep 22, 2022 negative
Sep 22, 2022 positive
Chan: Peer groups deliver better advice when founders share growth stages
“I think the fact that all the batches were in 2021 and are relatively in the same growth stage definitely helped facilitate a lot of the conversations because The memory of whatever you're going through or the advice were it's fresh, right? You know, the tacti…”
Oct 18, 2022 neutral
Nov 1, 2022
Nov 15, 2022 neutral
Walling: Hiring effectively is difficult without domain expertise in the role
“It is really hard to hire people when you're not an expert at the thing you're hiring. It's the unfortunate reality of like, I see non-technical single founders trying to hire that first developer and it's very tough. And so likewise, if you're trying to hire …”
Jan 3, 2023 neutral
Feb 9, 2023
Feb 9, 2023 neutral
Feb 9, 2023 neutral
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Feb 9, 2023 neutral
Feb 9, 2023 positive
Feb 9, 2023 negative
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Feb 9, 2023 neutral
Feb 9, 2023 bullish
Feb 9, 2023
Feb 9, 2023 neutral
Feb 9, 2023
Walling: TinySeed Accelerator Sweet Spot Is $2K–$3K to $50K MRR
“For me though, in between that two and three up to about I'd say most recently about 40 K MRR, 40 or 50 is where we've been funding. I think if you're above 40 or 50, we should probably talk about you using our syndicate to get funded unless you really want to…”
Feb 9, 2023 positive
Osborne: 60% to 70% of TinySeed Companies Do Not Raise Further Capital
“I think, what is it, 60 to 70% of the companies that go through TinySeek go back to maybe semi-bootstrapping, or still being like, say, in the state of mind while
You know, taking tiny seed money and then not raising for money.”
Feb 9, 2023 positive
Feb 9, 2023 bullish
Feb 9, 2023 neutral
Feb 9, 2023 positive
Feb 9, 2023 bearish
Feb 9, 2023
Feb 9, 2023
Feb 9, 2023 positive
Walling: TinySeed Has Accepted Startups Facing Significant Platform Risk
“In my opinion, it is not Too much platform risk to apply. We have folks with as much or more platform risk who have gotten into the program, and it's just about managing that and understanding that risk is there and figuring out ways as you grow to mitigate it…”
Feb 9, 2023 positive
Feb 9, 2023
Feb 14, 2023
Mar 14, 2023 negative
Walling: Raising an investment round is rarely worth doing below $75,000
“And pretty much the blanket advice I give is like, it's almost not worth doing if you're not going to raise, let's say, a hundred grand. Maybe for like, 75, you know, I mean, because it's time consuming, it's distraction, it is legal fees, and again, how you s…”
Apr 4, 2023 positive
Walling: 2-to-10-person startups seek generalists with multiple skill sets
“If I'm going to join as employee number two through 10, I mean, the tiny C companies, the microcom companies, and even when I was two through 10, always wanted people with multiple skill sets. That was, they were like the unicorns that I looked for, because I …”
Apr 11, 2023
Walling: Under 5% of TinySeed Founders Had Pre-Existing Audiences
“So with TinySeed, for example, we have, I believe it's about a 107 companies that we funded, and I think we're going to fund another, what, 20, 25 here in the next month or two. It's a lot of companies, and less than five percent of them had an audience before…”
Apr 18, 2023 negative
Walling: SaaS Startups Do Not Need Keywords in Their Company Names
“The thing is, you don't need keywords embedded in your company name, right, or product name. Go to tinyseed.com slash portfolio and assume that most of these companies are successful, you know, doing tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars a…”
May 2, 2023 negative
May 2, 2023 positive
Walling: TinySeed and MicroConf operate internally like startups, not passive funds
“When I first meet people and they say, what do you do? I say, I'm a startup founder. I run startups. Like, that's what Tiny Seed and MicroConf really are. Like, Tiny Seed happens to have raised funding to invest in other startups, but internally we are still, …”
May 2, 2023 neutral
Rob Walling: Organic SaaS Growth Is Harder, Making Seed Funding Advisable
“The content bar, especially with AI now, but even before that, like, 1015 years ago, I could hire someone to put out articles and just build links, like almost buy links from, what were they, blog networks or whatever, and you could rank in Google, and you can…”
May 2, 2023
Walling: Micro-investing in bootstrapped projects requires significantly lower valuations
“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…”
May 9, 2023
Walling: Outside capital creates an implied agreement to focus and deliver investor returns
“Once you take investment from someone, even really nice investors who are not putting a ton of pressure on you to grow, there is still an implied agreement that you will focus. And that you will do your best to grow the company like that. You'll work hard to b…”
Jun 20, 2023
Jun 20, 2023 positive
Jul 25, 2023
Aug 15, 2023 neutral
Eighty percent of TinySeed founders prefer selling over taking profit dividends
“It's about eighty-twenty, when tiny seed founders come in, we, I used to ask, do you want to grow as fast as possible, be the ambitious bootstrapper, and sell for, usually it's enough money, you never have to work again, or would you prefer to run your company…”
Aug 29, 2023 neutral
Sep 12, 2023
Sep 19, 2023
Sep 26, 2023
Oct 17, 2023 neutral
Walling: Accelerators fund low-revenue SaaS at $1M to $2M valuations
“And if you look around at accelerators, for example, you know, they will fund like Tiny Seed, Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 startups, you know, they'll fund A company doing a few thousand dollars a month at, you know, a 900,000 to two million dollar valuation, …”
Nov 7, 2023 neutral
TinySeed's ten fastest-growing portfolio companies all relied on founder-led growth
“If I were to take the top 10 say fastest growing tiny seed companies, without exception, all 10 of those, the founders either head up the marketing or sales or they learned enough To get them to the point where they could hire someone really good, and they had…”
Nov 14, 2023
Walling: 90% of tech startups should bootstrap, only 1% should raise venture
“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…”
Nov 14, 2023 negative
Walling: TinySeed never invests in founders running multiple side products
“When we're interviewing founders for TinySeed, if we get a lot of pushback about asking them to, say, go full time on their startup, or someone who we notice is all over the place doing the indie hacker dream where they have five or six different products, I w…”
Nov 28, 2023 positive
Dec 19, 2023
Walling: TinySeed Is Intentionally Not the Cheapest Money
“We are not the cheapest money.
By design, we are not the cheapest money.
If you want cheap money, go to a doctor down the street, a dentist, maybe a local angel group, go try to raise on, you know, on Sand Hill Road, go to one of kind of the copycat, like the …”
Dec 19, 2023 negative
Dec 26, 2023
Postpone exceeded $10K MRR when McConaughey left Zapier
“Yeah, I was north of 10 K MRR at the time I quit, and funny enough, I actually put my notice in at Zapier, this is like October of twenty-twenty-two, before getting accepted into TinySeed, and then a week later, got the email from you all that I had been accep…”
Dec 26, 2023
Walling: Portfolio founders almost never have to roll back price increases
“I cannot remember, I've had people raise prices and need to change the, oh, we got the value metric wrong, or like we need to tweak We need to do some stuff, but to raise prices and then truly roll back, I don't know that I remember a time when that's happened”
Jan 2, 2024 bullish
Jan 9, 2024 negative
Walling: Jason Fried and DHH's advice fails 99.9% of startups
“Jason Fried and DHH are tiny seed mentors. They invested in our first fund. So I'm not throwing shade at them, but I'm saying they often give advice that fits them really well and worked for them that I think it won't work for 999 out of the next thousand star…”
Jan 23, 2024 neutral
Feb 13, 2024 neutral
Gather took eighteen months to move upmarket, missing its six-month estimate
“Gather, which was focusing on one and two person architecture and interior design firms, they went Up market. And they wanted to go to five to 20 person teams. And we talked about it, and they knew it was going to take months, and their estimate, I don't remem…”
Feb 20, 2024 positive
Walling: Standard SaaS Playbooks Only Work After Initial Product-Market Fit
“Tiny Seed, I think is, is really designed for that stage, which is why we do that. The SaaS playbook is a hundred percent written for that as well. It's like, you have some customers, you have a loose, loose product market fit, and you're trying to strengthen …”
Feb 27, 2024 bearish
Walling: TinySeed views sub-80% founder ownership as a negative signal
“We have seen companies apply to TinySeed that we wanted to fund, and if the founders, by the time they reach us between the one, two, or three of them, however many there are, if they own less than 80% of their company, We start to ask questions, and if they o…”
Mar 5, 2024 positive
Walling: Vertical software founders do not need to be top-tier marketers
“We really like, I really like vertical software. We do at TinySeed because it's, you can dominate it. You're not competing with whoever, Microsoft, Google, Facebook. You don't have to be the best marketer. You just have to be better than the other, like five i…”
Mar 5, 2024
Mar 12, 2024 positive
Mar 12, 2024 neutral
Mar 19, 2024 neutral
Walling: Over 90% of TinySeed startups have one or two founders
“I believe the number is 90% of our kind of MicroConf TinySeed
Crew is one or two person companies, which makes sense.
One or two co-founder companies, I should say.
And then it's another handful, it might even be more than 90, actually, it might be like 92,…”
Apr 2, 2024
Apr 2, 2024 negative
Volset: One-time software pricing is not viable for average bootstrapped startups
“I don't think it's a winning formula for your average startup, you know, indie hacker, bootstrapper, tiny seed founder to be like, oh, screw it. Like, let's not charge 50 bucks a month or whatever. Let's just do 300 dollars once.”
Apr 9, 2024
Walling: Every TinySeed company over $1M ARR had founder-led marketing
“When I look at the list, I have this list I keep of A&R and I keep of all the tiny seed companies that are over a million in ARR. And it's a, you know, it's a pretty long list, which is great. I believe without fail, every single one of them, the founder or on…”
Apr 9, 2024 positive
Apr 30, 2024 positive
Walling: Higher SaaS pricing typically drives lower churn and faster growth
“The higher price, typically the lower the churn, the faster the growth. Like we see this in the state of independent SaaS when we ask about churn and lifetime value and ticket price, and then we compare it to growth. It's obvious that the higher lifetime value…”
Apr 30, 2024 neutral
Apr 30, 2024 neutral
Walling: Dual-Funnel SaaS Generates 70-80% of MRR From Higher-Tier Plans
“Most of, you know, I have insight into a 190 something companies, and most of the companies with this type of dual funnel where you have either free on the bottom end or super cheap, and then you have people paying you 500, a 1002 thousand and up, they make th…”
Apr 30, 2024 neutral
May 7, 2024 neutral
Walling: True horizontal SaaS makes marketing harder without a specific target role
“What we've seen across the tiny seed companies we've invested in is that horizontal plays, true horizontal plays get really competitive, and there's often a big player that you're fighting against, which is okay, but it can make marketing and sales more diffic…”
May 7, 2024 positive
May 21, 2024 neutral
May 21, 2024 positive
Jun 25, 2024 negative
Jul 2, 2024
Jul 9, 2024 neutral
Jul 9, 2024 neutral
Walling: SaaS startups raising $250K-$500K transition out of bootstrapped status
“Like, there are venture capitalists who will say, if you've raised less than a million dollars, you are effectively bootstrapped. Like, that's how they view it. And for me, usually the number is in the two 50 to 500 K. I think that's when you start to transiti…”
Aug 6, 2024 positive
Gomez: SaaS companies with higher price points tend to grow fastest
“Companies that basically charge more money tend to grow the fastest. And you've mentioned this about, like, tiny seed companies and the patterns that we've seen in the recent survey about SaaS as well. And just from founders that I know, the ones that charge m…”
Aug 20, 2024 bullish
Aug 20, 2024 neutral
Vollset: SaaS Growth Stalls at $1M–$3M ARR Without New Products or Channels
“And I think the biggest mindset change that I've observed repeatedly is people, once they get past about a million in ARR two or three, they get to the stage. They're like, oh, like my growth is stalling out now. Like what I was working, like my market saturat…”
Aug 20, 2024 positive
Walling: 85% of Bootstrapped SaaS Companies Find Hiring Same or Easier
“85% of companies we surveyed, so we surveyed 700, almost 700 bootstrap, mostly bootstrap SAS companies, all microconf, tiny seed type companies, 85% reported that the difficulty in hiring people is either the same or easier than last year.”
Aug 20, 2024 neutral
Walling's 3 SaaS phases: Product ($0–10K), Business ($10K–50K), Company ($50K+)
“I talk about it in three phases and there are more than this, but like the first phase is building a product. Second phase is building a business. Third phase is building a company. And usually I think of product as being zero up to Usually about 10 K, MRR, to…”
Aug 27, 2024
Aug 27, 2024 neutral
Sep 3, 2024 bullish
Sep 3, 2024 negative
Early-Stage SaaS Founders Must Retain 70-80% Equity to Remain Investable
“If you come to us, and we're typically the first money into a company, and the founders own less than, you know, 70%, like that's not a good sign. And sometimes we are the second money in, so there are exceptions to that, but certainly you want the founders to…”
Sep 3, 2024
Sep 3, 2024 neutral
Only 15-20% of TinySeed Founders Prefer Long-Term Dividends Over Exits
“With my show of hands surveys that I've done in several tiny seed Zooms, it appears that it's about 15%, maybe 20, that want to grow a company for the long term and take out profits. So it is the, you know, call it the super majority that do want to have that …”
Sep 3, 2024 negative
Sep 3, 2024 positive
Sep 3, 2024 positive
Sep 3, 2024 neutral
Follow-On Funding Rates for TinySeed Startups Dropped to 25% Post-2022
“And within the first few years, it was about a third of our companies went on to raise additional funding. After the twenty-twenty-two crash, where funding valuations hit ten-year lows, and money is just not as easily accessible, I think it's probably closer t…”
Sep 3, 2024 positive
Sep 17, 2024 positive
Oct 8, 2024
Walling: TinySeed funded roughly 5 to 10 on-prem SaaS companies out of 170
“We funded a handful, you know, and again, I don't know if it's five or if it's 10 out of one 70, but there are, especially like you said, in finance or in certain regulated industries where like you really do need or want control of that data and, you know, ju…”
Oct 15, 2024 neutral
TinySeed funded Postpone despite a 100% Reddit customer concentration
“Grant, he's a tiny seed founder, started Postpone, and it was just for Reddit. And so when we funded him, we said, your customer concentration is basically a hundred percent Reddit. We think you should diversify into other platforms, and he was already on boar…”
Oct 15, 2024 negative
Walling: Startup attempts to diversify across multiple platforms usually fail
“Usually actually branching into other platforms is a lot harder than you think. We've seen tiny, I've seen tiny companies and non-tiny companies try to do it, and it can work, but in the majority of cases I've seen it hasn't worked.”
Oct 22, 2024 neutral
Oct 29, 2024 bearish
Nov 5, 2024 negative
Nov 12, 2024
Nov 26, 2024
Dec 17, 2024 neutral
Dec 17, 2024 bullish
Vollset claims TinySeed Fund 1 ranks in Carta's top 15 percent
“You know, it's not quite apples to apples, but certainly like, you know, CARTA came out with a venture benchmark report here earlier, earlier this year. And like, we're basically in the top five to 15% of most metrics of venture funds.”
Dec 17, 2024 positive
Dec 24, 2024 neutral
Dec 24, 2024 negative
Walling: Only 1% of tech startups should raise venture capital
“Not only, should not everyone raise it, but I only think about one percent of venture-eligible tech startups should raise venture. I think one percent, approximately, should consider raising venture. I think nine percent should consider raising some type of fu…”
Dec 24, 2024 positive
Dec 24, 2024 neutral
Jan 14, 2025 negative
Vollset: TinySeed actively avoids the typical VC model of quadrupling fund size
“Like, we're not vastly increasing the size of our fund, which is, you know, quite common. Like, in the VC world, it's very often like, You start with a small fund, then you quadruple it, and then that works out and you quadruple it again. And like, we're not d…”
Jan 14, 2025 neutral
Vollset: Early-stage check writing skill does not translate to later-stage investing
“Just because you're good at writing 250,000 dollar checks does not mean you're good at writing five million dollar checks into later stage companies. And your competition might be different, and your deal flow might be different, and your pricing power might n…”
Jan 14, 2025 positive
Jan 14, 2025
Jan 14, 2025
Vollset: Low-valuation $75M exits yield identical 40x returns to $1B unicorns
“If you're B to B SaaS and as an investor, you can put money in that a couple of million and then they sell for 50 to a hundred million dollars. That's as good. Like, it doesn't matter to you. If you get 40 X your money, what do you care? Whether it, 40 exit me…”
Jan 14, 2025 neutral
Vollset: Under 10% of TinySeed companies raise follow-on VC, down from 30%
“I remember looking, I was like, oh, about 30% of the companies have raised money, and that's what I used to say, like, about a third, and then I was coming around the fundraising again, I was like, okay, let's look at this, and actually, it's like, it's eight …”
Jan 14, 2025
Jan 14, 2025 neutral
Walling: Only 1% of startups should raise traditional venture capital
“I talk about my one nine 90 rule where I say around one percent of startups should go after venture, about 90% should bootstrap, and I think about nine percent should raise probably some type of funding. Maybe that's tiny seed, maybe it's angels, but it's like…”
Jan 21, 2025 positive
Walling: MicroConf uses Dynamite Jobs for full-time and Upwork for part-time
“If I'm doing a full-time, you know, W-II employee hire, we go through Dynamite Jobs remote-first recruiting, just because finding full-time people is so time-consuming. But if we're hiring part-time, we tend, we being MicroConf Tiny Seed, And even, you know, b…”
Jan 21, 2025 positive
Walling: SaaS companies usually only need one core value metric
“We do pricing teardowns at the kickoffs for TinySeed, and one of the biggest repeated things we see is too much. There's too many value. You don't need three value metrics usually. It's like, let's try it. Why do we have that one? Oh, that's because a competit…”
Jan 21, 2025 bullish
Walling: MicroConf pivoted to LinkedIn after YouTube growth plateaued at 90,000 subscribers
“We pick one new thing to attack, and we did YouTube for two and a half years, and then, you know, until it plateaued around 90,000, and then we are looking at LinkedIn next, and we're going all in. Like, we hired a LinkedIn consultant. We are spending thousand…”
Jan 23, 2025 positive
Feb 4, 2025 positive
No TinySeed company has reverted to freemium after eliminating its free plan
“And several tiny seed companies have done this. And I say tiny seed companies because I have pretty detailed insight into what they're doing and how they're doing it and the results of it. And any of them that remove their free plan, even for existing users, h…”
Feb 4, 2025 bearish
Feb 6, 2025 positive
Feb 11, 2025
Feb 11, 2025 neutral
Feb 13, 2025 negative
Feb 13, 2025 neutral
Feb 18, 2025 positive
Walling: Successful founders ship quickly and are right 60% of the time
“The tiny seed founders we see succeeding. They do a lot of things, they ship a lot of things relatively quickly, and they're right the majority of the time. And by majority, I say it on this podcast over and over, it is not 90%. You know, it's some number. It'…”
Feb 20, 2025 neutral
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025 positive
Mar 13, 2025 neutral
Walling: No failed startup founder ever regrets moving or shipping too fast
“When I've asked other founders when they're, after their business has shut down, you know, what are things that you regret or that you would do differently? I've never once heard them say, I would have executed more. So we moved too fast. We shipped too many t…”
Mar 13, 2025
Mar 25, 2025 positive
Mar 25, 2025 positive
Walling: Vertical SaaS faces less competition and hones ICP easier than horizontal
“This is also why I believe horizontal SAS is so much harder. Like if you're building Sinewell, right, Ruben Gomez has, it's a competitor to DocuSign. Horizontal electronic signature, like, Can he possibly have one ICP? Probably not. Versus if I'm vertical... T…”
Mar 25, 2025 positive
Apr 1, 2025
Apr 22, 2025 negative
Apr 22, 2025 bearish
Walling: TinySeed's custom AI model investments were decimated by GPT-4o
“We get a lot of AI applicants, and some of them are developing their own models, like custom models that they're training, and I'll be honest, I don't know how many of those we've invested in, it's a small number, low single digits, let's say. I think all of t…”
Apr 22, 2025
Walling: Companies need written culture rules once reaching 15 to 20 people
“I think there's a point between 15 and 20 where if we are not communicating that, if we have If the people at the top, let's say Anar and myself and, you know, Tracy and Alex on the accelerator side, if we are not directly doing the hiring and training, and it…”
May 13, 2025 neutral
May 13, 2025 positive
May 13, 2025 neutral
Walling: Raising prices merely fixes underpricing, unlike actually moving upmarket
“There's a difference between raising your prices and going up market. Those are two different things. They can be the same, but a lot of times you are just underpriced for the market. You're charging 29, you can charge 49 to the exact same customer base, same …”
May 20, 2025 neutral
Walling: Only one out of 204 TinySeed startups ran physical on-prem servers
“Of all the tiny C companies, 204 investments we've done, there was one founder who had physical servers, and the reason was, is it was like three years ago, and he was doing AI and needed physical GPUs, because it was way too, he built his own model.”
May 27, 2025
Jun 17, 2025 positive
Jul 8, 2025
Walling: Over 95% of TinySeed SaaS investments had no launch audience
“95 plus percent of the SaaS companies that I've invested in had no social media audience, no personal brand audience. When they launched, they still don't, and they're still wildly successful, and there's dozens of seven and eight figure SaaS companies in Tiny…”
Jul 15, 2025 positive
Jul 15, 2025 negative
Jul 15, 2025 neutral
Walling: TinySeed sees quarterly cease-and-desists and co-founder implosions across its portfolio
“204 investments, I think, just through TinySeed. We see a cease and desist at least once a quarter, sometimes every two months, just because it's a lot of large numbers. Now we also see co-founders implode about once a quarter and we see, you know, an app get …”
Jul 15, 2025 positive
Jul 29, 2025 negative
Rob Walling: 75% to 80% of founders joining TinySeed undercharge or misprice
“Most makers, most developers, and most early-stage founders undercharge for their product, and so that's kind of the rule of thumb that we see, you know, coming into TinySeed, for example, which is something that I've tracked pretty closely. It's like, 75, 80%…”
Jul 29, 2025 positive
Walling: Only 1 or 2 TinySeed companies regret raising prices
“In all of the times that I've seen tiny seed companies raise their pricing, because we do encourage them to, and not just blindly, but it's kind of obvious, you know, you kind of get a feel for what something maybe should be charged, or at least the range, and…”
Aug 12, 2025 positive
Aug 19, 2025 negative
Aug 19, 2025 negative
Walling: Five-person startups should never hire from 500-person companies
“If I run a five person team, almost without exception, I will not hire someone from a 500 person team. Just won't do it, because retraining that culture, that thinking, that there is no process, you have to do your stuff, is so very hard. And so, again, I say …”
Aug 19, 2025 positive
Walling: Half of TinySeed-funded companies are run by solo founders
“We have funded gobs of single founder companies, and I don't remember the exact number, but it's probably 50%, if I'm guessing, are single founder, and another 35% are two founder, if I were to just ballpark it, so that puts us to 85, maybe even more, maybe it…”
Aug 19, 2025 neutral
Aug 19, 2025 negative
Walling: All no-code SaaS apps funded by TinySeed eventually require rewrites
“We've funded a handful, and I don't know the exact numbers, but it's five or less Of no code, code bases. No code apps, I guess I would call them, you know, that are built in air table, bubble, that kind of stuff. And all of them have been rewritten or will ne…”
Aug 21, 2025 neutral
Walling: Accelerators with broad business models lose deep operational granularity
“The moment that you rise up one layer of abstraction, you lose granularity, and two hours on churn makes no sense if there's a biotech company next to you, and a hardware company on the other side, and a two-sided marketplace on the other side, and a B to C co…”
Aug 21, 2025 neutral
Sep 11, 2025 positive
Sep 11, 2025 bullish
Kenney: Outbound Sync hits $20K MRR ahead of schedule
“20 K, let's go. I don't know. I'm still sinking in, but really, really feeling a little overwhelmed, and also like, what's the next thing about hitting 20 K MRR? So yeah, hit it ahead of schedule. Had been hoping to hit this in May, that had been, you know, ki…”
Sep 18, 2025 positive
OutboundSync Reaches Profitability at $35k MRR on Schedule in June 2025
“My timeline was right, so I joined Tiny Seed, spring 24 batch, We went to San Diego in May, which was awesome. At that time when I left, I thought to myself, I want to be profitable, like, a year from now, which was June, 25. I thought the number Was 30, it wa…”
Sep 18, 2025 positive
Kenny: OutboundSync Averages 10% to 20% Monthly Growth Since October 2023
“So if I go back to our first month of revenue, which was October, twenty-twenty-three, well, I mean, we have been between 10 and 20% growth on average throughout that whole time. There's like a couple exceptions. The third month was a down month, and then like…”
Sep 23, 2025 negative
Walling: TinySeed Bans Founders Managing Multiple Unrelated SaaS Products
“That's the entire thesis of Tiny Seed, of course, is to get people to focus and not, you know, we don't allow folks in who are going to bring in multiple products, unless the products are an ecosystem, right, are highly related to each other, but just scattere…”
Oct 7, 2025 negative
Walling: Co-founder vesting without a one-year cliff destroys startup fundability
“If you find a co-founder have vesting. Have four-year vesting with a one-year cliff, such that they, you know, if things don't work out after a few months, they don't walk away with a big chunk of your company. We have seen tiny seed applicants that we were un…”
Oct 7, 2025 negative
Oct 7, 2025
Nov 4, 2025 positive
Nov 18, 2025 neutral
Nov 25, 2025 neutral
Nov 25, 2025 neutral
Virtually zero founders in the TinySeed ecosystem hold patents
“And this is why approximately zero founders in the MicroConf TinySeed Startups and Restless Ecosystem have patents.
There are some exceptions.
That's why I say approximately zero.
So yes, you can, I can point out two right now, but there are
More than what is …”
Dec 2, 2025 positive
Dec 9, 2025 negative
Bootstrappers should model themselves after resource-constrained founders, not Apple or Basecamp.
“Don't model yourself after Apple. Because they also have infinity resources to do things. Model after people who are constrained and who have solely, you know, like a Derek Reimer, any tiny C company, maybe some of the indie hackers that have taste, I don't kn…”
Dec 16, 2025
Walling: TinySeed asks startup applicants if their code is vibe-coded before investing
“TinySeed has funded a couple no-code codebases, and I don't honestly know the exact number. It might be two, and it may be a size four. I don't think we've funded a Vibe Coded code base. We, we're now asking that in interviews because I want to know if you're …”
Dec 16, 2025 neutral
Walling: Founders should not delegate product management before $1M-$3M ARR
“I think you're probably, it's definitely one to two million is the earliest. I would consider bringing someone else in to start making product decisions, what you build, in what order, getting customer feedback, understanding your space, deciding how things ar…”
Dec 16, 2025 neutral
Walling: SaaS founders should keep marketing strategy in-house until $1.5M-$2M ARR
“The earliest I've seen any of them really bring someone in to collaborate on strategy, and I'll say they didn't hand it off completely, but it's probably about, certainly above a million ARR. I would lean towards 1.5 to maybe two million ARR, and this depends …”
Dec 16, 2025 bearish
Dec 23, 2025 positive
Walling: Around 80% of TinySeed applicants come through referrals and audience channels
“More than 75% of our applicants come from referrals from Tiny Seed alumni, from MicroConf, or MicroConf YouTube, from Startups for the Rest of Us, from other word-of-mouth referrals, or from our social media, or email lists, or my books, or my email list, and …”
Dec 23, 2025 negative
Walling: Unsupervised AI-coded software becomes unmaintainable within 6 to 18 months
“And it's okay to use AI to code as long as a, like an engineer is supervising slash running that process, because we know That you can have AI build you something, and we know that in six, 1218 months it will become very, very hard to maintain. Feature velocit…”
Dec 23, 2025
Walling: TinySeed closes Fund 3, backs over 210 B2B SaaS companies
“We've just recently closed our fund three, which is our fourth fund technically, because fund naming is just, it's a thing. And we've invested in more than 210 B to B SaaS companies. I believe the number is probably two 11 or two 12.”
Dec 23, 2025
Dec 23, 2025 positive
Walling: Vertical SaaS Delivers Stronger Exits and Lower Churn Than Horizontal
“Horizontal B to B SaaS is very hard. And at a certain point, a lot of competitors are in your space, and It becomes hard to grow. And so vertical and orthogonal SaaS, we've seen stronger exits, we've seen folks able to get further and have lower churn and all …”
Dec 23, 2025
Dec 23, 2025
Dec 23, 2025 positive
Dec 23, 2025 bullish
Dec 23, 2025
Walling: TinySeed's Fall 2025 Batch Has Zero Horizontal SaaS Companies
“Across these 10 we have approximately zero horizontal companies. They all are vertical or orthogonal, I believe actually all 10 of these are vertical, ranging from retail stores to first responders to jewelers to IT service teams to cannabis growers and distri…”
Dec 30, 2025 bearish
Bootstrapped Horizontal SaaS Typically Plateaus Between $500K and $2M ARR
“It is an exception that I'm seeing when a horizontal, mostly bootstrapped company is able to continue growth and not plateau in that, the ranges depend on the size of the market and all this, but it's half a million, a 1,000,002 million, and they plateau hard,…”
Dec 30, 2025 bearish
Jan 6, 2026 positive
Walling: Bringing Bootstrapper Pragmatism to Venture Capital Is a Superpower
“Now that I have like raised funding with tiny seed and I see companies that raise a few million, you know, we have a bunch of tiny seed companies that have done this. If you do it well, if you think about it like a bootstrapper, and you approach it like Laura …”
Feb 10, 2026 neutral
Feb 24, 2026 neutral
Walling: Under 5% of TinySeed's 210 SaaS companies built an audience
“Across TinySeeds, 210 companies, there were like four percent of those, maybe five, I think it was just under five percent, that had any type of audience Or have ever built any type of audience, and yet we have dozens of companies doing six, I mean, sorry, doi…”
Mar 3, 2026 bearish
Every successful no-code or AI vibe-coded startup inevitably requires a rewrite
“Every company that I've invested in or otherwise had visibility into that has been no code or has been poorly coded, I will say, I'm just going to assume that AI vibe coding is poorly coded and hard to maintain long term. That may or may not be correct. But wh…”
Mar 3, 2026
TinySeed targets $1M to $3M valuations for 10% to 12% equity
“We do 10 to 12% for, what is it, 120 to, usually two 20, so the valuation, I think that's one to two million, or one to two and a half million, you get it. And the two and a half 1,000,003 million dollar valuations we've done, someone had a hundred K of MRR wh…”
Mar 17, 2026 negative
Walling: TinySeed explored and rejected launching an RBF debt fund
“Einar and I at one point, this is six, seven years ago, talked about should we raise a debt fund, right, and have Tiny Seed Capital. I don't know what we call it, but whatever, you know, you get the idea. Tiny Seed RBF. And when we looked at the amount that we…”
Mar 17, 2026 neutral
Walling: Only 4% of 210 TinySeed startups use social media marketing
“Of the 210 companies That Tiny Seed has invested in, it's like, I think it's just over four percent have any type of social media marketing or any type of audience. The other 96%, they just market, they do SEO, they do cold outbound, they do advertise, you kno…”
Mar 31, 2026 neutral
Walling: TinySeed manages nearly $60M AUM and 210 investments with 11 staff
“Tiny team, think of like MicroConf and TinySeed is nine full-time people and two part-time. And we have invested in 210 B to B SaaS companies in the last seven years. We run all the MicroConf events in addition to mastermind matching and connect. We push out t…”
Apr 28, 2026 bearish
Walling: Almost no TinySeed startups have built MCP or CLI integrations
“How few, even tiny seed startups that are like, bleeding edge, Almost none of them have MCP and CLI, and the ones that do have two users, three users, is not, we are not nearly as far as Twitter would have you believe, right? We're like, oh, everyone's buildin…”
May 19, 2026 bullish
Jun 2, 2026
Hendrickson: SaaS founders tend to coast after reaching $20k-$40k MRR
“Once they hit the 20, 30, 40,000 MRR, Life's good. They don't have to worry about the day to day as much, and you don't have that kind of like broke fire burning under them as much. So they kind of just limit themselves naturally for that, or they'll like natu…”
Jun 23, 2026 positive
Jun 23, 2026
Jun 23, 2026 positive
Walling: Low-touch SaaS startups should test hiding their lowest pricing tier
“One quick way to test whether that lower end, that bottom end pricing plan is doing you good or harm, is to just hide it. Just hide a div on your pricing page. And watch your numbers. This is obviously where it's like a lower touch sign up, you know, this is n…”
Jun 23, 2026 positive
Jun 23, 2026
Jul 7, 2026 neutral
Walling: 70–80% of TinySeed Companies Start Pricing in the Single-Digit Hundreds
“Most businesses these days that get into TinyC do have price points in the single digit hundreds, kind of as their low end. That's not a, always, that's not a hundred percent, but it, maybe it's 70 to 80% of companies.”
Jul 14, 2026 negative
Jul 28, 2026
Walling: Successful founders execute rapidly and are right 60% of the time
“Generally, the people who succeed, they do a lot of things, and they're right more often than not. Not all the time, but they're right. They can be right 60% of the time, but they just do a lot of and the founders, and they're not flailing.”
Aug 18, 2026
Aug 25, 2026