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Einar Volsett

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
859 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works

We're not investing in companies that, at the outset, want to be outliers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works

We're not saying we will, if we invest in you and you become an outlier, we're like, oh shit, we fucked up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works

Because the nature of early stage investments in sort of parallel nature of outcomes that we're seeing, that you can see, this is true for like 500 startups is actually...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works

One of the few people who very early on articulated this and says, and like, there's a bunch of research that effectively shows you should be investing much more broadly than you are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works

And I think, I personally think that's why most angel investors do really poorly at the early stage of tech investing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works

It's because they don't have enough portfolio, companies in their portfolio.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works

I mean, what we want to be effectively is almost like an index fund into the very early stages of B2B SaaS companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works

No, it depends on the expected return on the, based on some of the modeling is like,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works

It depends, but I think you probably need to have at least 50 companies in your car to have the outcome where you're expected to have at least a 5x return on capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works

Fund 2, we're just about to start fundraising.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works

We were going to start going to market, honestly, I guess in February.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works

But then obviously COVID hits and it seemed a little...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works

to start calling family offices and ask for cash when they were probably worried about what was going to happen to their grandparents and what they were going to do with their kids at home, homeschooling them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works

So we put that on hold, but we're about to go to market now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works

We're being public about the fact that we're fundraising so we can sort of advertise it.