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by einarvollset 5mo ago
Very cool!
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by einarvollset 7mo ago
Yep. More the smaller the deal. Sub $1M ARR, it can be 10-20%
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by einarvollset 7mo ago
Yep couldn’t agree more that prep is important. And yeah often someone coming inbound is the most keen (though they still need managing to get the biggest outcome in my experience). I’m actually working on a “Definitive Guide to M&A to
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by einarvollset 7mo ago
So transaction multiples for us tend to be 5-8x (higher over $10M ARR), with outliers to 15-20x+ But the bigger issue is what you’re alluding to - lots of founders don’t really understand what doors they’re closing when raising a shit ton o
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by einarvollset 8mo ago
Great content and perspective. I would say (and fair warning, this is obviously biased as I run one of the investment banks that specialize in B2B SaaS M&A between $2-20M ARR - Discretion Capital), this: "Now should you hire a bank
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by einarvollset 2y ago
I do deals a fair bit larger than this, and so am obviously biased, but while this sounds appealing, the fact is that only once or twice out of the couple of dozen times I’ve heard back from founders that decided to DIY their M&A have I
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by einarvollset 2y ago
This is cool, but it is not obvious to me if this is a web app or a native Mac or what - some screenshots, a video or at least a description of how and where this runs would be helpful to get people over the hump of doing the signup I suspe
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by einarvollset 3y ago
We get a lot of applications so it’s impossible to give detailed feedback to every rejection unfortunately. The main reason we reject are: 1. not B2B SaaS 2. No revenue 3. Churn 4. Atrocious cap table.
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by einarvollset 3y ago
I’m one of the co-founders of TinySeed (and a YC alumn). Happy to answer questions - we’re opening applications Sept 4th
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by einarvollset 3y ago
You know, if you don’t understand something, it’s totally fine to not immediately comment with whatever your political instincts tell you something might mean. Or perhaps you have some fresh insight on how the Section 174’s changes (only pa
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by einarvollset 4y ago
That is amazingly cool.
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TinySeed Applications Are Open(tinyseed.com)
21 points by einarvollset 4y ago|6 comments
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by einarvollset 4y ago
Hey, I'm the co-founder of TinySeed (and also a YC alumn), would be happy to connect: einar@tinyseed.com
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by einarvollset 5y ago
For the same reason PG proposed turning HN off “during office hours” several years back
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by einarvollset 5y ago
Main one missing from Norwegian is “harry” in my view. It means. Ehm.. not cool, specifically in a sort of crass/low brow kind of way. Like I said, hard to explain.
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by einarvollset 5y ago
Ben. Can you unsubscribe me from your email list? I used to be a subscriber, but after you decided to publish on Twitter some PMs that were meant as peace offerings, I’d like to not get your self serving crap in my inbox. I hit unsubscribe,
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by einarvollset 5y ago
AFAIK approximately all “no-stir” peanut butters only have peanuts in them. People don’t buy them because the oil floats to the top and causes a mess and if you don’t stir, then the bottom 1/5th is like glue.
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by einarvollset 5y ago
Works for me: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=9%3A00%20EST%20in%20CE...
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by einarvollset 5y ago
It doesn’t sound like you’ve been to western Norway.
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by einarvollset 5y ago
The notion that you cannot keep wood treatment on anything in the UK is ludicrous. You can choose to leave raw wood exposed, or you can chose to treat it every 5-10 years. Source: my family in Norway owns several wooden houses that are a co
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by einarvollset 5y ago
If only 5% of CA water is urban use, then surely the subsidy is minimal. Also - driving the Central Valley I see no end of “Congress stole our water” signs, so clearly some change is happening. Why can’t agriculture in more rain prone areas
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by einarvollset 5y ago
Okay great!
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by einarvollset 5y ago
Well, something like 1/3rd of all the vegetables and 2/3rds of all the fruit in the US is grown in California. Where do you propose this gets grown instead?
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by einarvollset 5y ago
Yep
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by einarvollset 5y ago
It is not I don't think, but I could be wrong.
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by einarvollset 5y ago
Trump never invoked the Defense Production Act.
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by einarvollset 5y ago
Sources? I've heard the "EU signed before UK" multiple times now, but nobody ever links to a source. It just seems unlikely, no? Why would they be so catastrophically far behind in that case? Similarly - the NHS is great, but
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by einarvollset 6y ago
I’m still banned
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by einarvollset 6y ago
Thank you ;)
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by einarvollset 6y ago
The tax thing is mostly to avoid the taxable event that arises when you sell crypto (if you’re up, which most people will be right now) + keeping exposure to the crypto in question. The way it works (~roughly) is that instead of selling the

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