Tiny is basically as advertised. A few years ago, I tried to sell one of my businesses to them (Zack) and he was straightforward in his reason to pass back then (profit too low). Took about a day once I had my metrics sorted.<p>The experience was positive and re-enforced my understanding of important growth metrics and product storytelling.
A close friend of mine sold them a business. They are quick as advertised but pay bottom of the barrel multiples. Helpful if you need cash quick I guess.
We sold Unicornhunt.io to Tiny Capital a few years ago and it was a relatively painless experience ( selling up is an emotional thing as is ) and I'd strongly recommend to any indie founder looking to exit.<p>Feel free to email me on benjamin@peaceandlove.io if you want to discuss it further.
Sometimes I wonder whether I should go and try to buy a micro SaaS business (I am an SWE) that's already out there just for the sake of trying to learn the ropes on how to do a business.<p>Convince me this is a bad idea.
Andrew Wilkinson, co-founder of Tiny, has done a lot of podcast interviews. If you consider selling your business to Tiny, you should listen to a few of his interviews first to learn about his startup journey, Tiny's approach of buying businesses, and himself :) Search "Andrew Wilkinson": <a href="https://lnns.co/2lXRHeZc17A" rel="nofollow">https://lnns.co/2lXRHeZc17A</a>
What's the catch with this, I wonder? If it's so easy to cash out, what does that mean for the price at which you cash out?<p>How does Tiny manage to stay non-interventionist as they claim?<p>It's interesting but I think there has to be more than what's pointed out here going on
In case someone from the company is reading, the current background blue color is quite harsh on eyes, especially when reading text.<p>Please try using #3f51b5 or something similar. Other than that, love the design.
Is there a story behind the cruel-sounding "Cap table cleanup" heading? It says:<p><pre><code> > You've got early employees, investors, or a co-founder
> who wants to leave or cash out. You want to swap them
> for a friendly new face who can add value and help you
> grow the business.
</code></pre>
It feels like they're insinuating that there's usually a painful process in enabling people to cash-out and leave? Is this because of the whole "golden handcuff" thing and the risk of everyone just wanting to leave immediately? To me that's always seemed like a larger problem in how we arrange early equity. Incentives are malformed.
For B2B SaaS and dev tools/infrastructure there is <a href="https://xenon.io/" rel="nofollow">https://xenon.io/</a> which operates with similar principals it seems.
The founders also have a Spotify marketplace sidekick to Tiny <a href="https://www.wecommerce.co/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wecommerce.co/</a>
Can anyone say how much it costs a founder to go through the process of being propositioned and then either rejecting the suitor or be rejected by them?
It looks like regular capital but really tiny<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj4-E5Hs3Kc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj4-E5Hs3Kc</a>
This reminds me Apple in the early 2000s: a simple message promising a fundamental improvement in some aspect of the world.<p>If it lives up to the message, this would grow into a massive fund, just as Apple grew into a trillion dollar plus company, and like Apple, this capital would enable this company's to realize its vision at a global scale.<p>The free market is a beautiful thing.
Is anybody else super tired of this aesthetic:<p><a href="https://assets.website-files.com/5f10771cbfea70224f1ce526/5f21dd68f36fe25cb3bdc872_illustration_1.png" rel="nofollow">https://assets.website-files.com/5f10771cbfea70224f1ce526/5f...</a><p>I know companies all jump on design bandwagons, but this one of these hideous illustrations of amorphous blob people is not only one that <i>every</i> company has been riding for the last few years, but should have never existed in the first place.<p>Not to mention the egregious usage of 90s HTML hyperlink blue. I get it, that ugly is ironic and cool, etc, but I'd really like to just pass through this phase of ironically self-aware, ugly design.