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Dinesh Kandanchatha

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
148 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

And what I'm trying to do there is,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

take my capital and amplify it with my network and my experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

So you need to take 75 K worth of capital, but then I'm working with you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

I'm putting a day into your business and a day a week.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

And the goal would be for six to nine months to work with you to really scale that up and then bring a deterministic business model to an institutional investor with upside so that they could go in and get you your one to two to 3 million in your, you know, your, your,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

seed round or your series a and then i can step away hire my my fire myself hire my replacement and you guys can go the founder can go build hopefully uh you know an eight-figure business i want to talk more about that in a second but first tell us about your most spectacular fail with the biggest explosion the hottest flames what just blew up in your face the worst

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

well that would be right after i uh i kind of i worked and sold the first company in the late 90s um as part of a technical team there that did real-time operating systems um and you know we got acquired by a semiconductor vendor and then went public on the london stock exchange

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

And then I left that firm and decided to try to start something out on my own and proceeded to get sued by my previous company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

Was that techsupport.ca?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

No, no, that was in between and got sued by my previous company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

What else happened?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

Yeah, well, the person that acquired Precise sued me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

Non-compete or what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

What's that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

Non-compete and intellectual property infringement.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

Both of which, you know, frankly, I didn't believe I was doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

Well, it's the funny thing I learned about that process is it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

No, totally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

It just puts you on the sidelines.