Episode 619 | TinySeed Tales s3e1: Moving from Bootstrapped to Mostly Bootstrapped

from Startups For the Rest of Us · host Rob Walling

Welcome to Season 3 of TinySeed Tales, where we follow the founders of one SaaS startup throughout a year as they share their struggles, victories, and failures. On the first episode of Season 3, Rob introduces us to Tony Chan, the cofounder of CloudForecast. CloudForecast is a daily AWS cost monitoring service for busy engineering teams. Tony is one of 33 startup founders from TinySeed’s Spring 2021 accelerator batch. Topics we cover: 2:41- What’s CloudForecast? 4:09- How large is the CloudForecast team? 6:54- Why did Tony apply to TinySeed? 8:30- Why Tony turned down venture capital offers? 13:48- Tony reflects on the added complexity of taking funding 19:47- Tony’s biggest fear 22:34- What is Tony looking forward to? Links from the Show: Tony Chan (@toeknee123) I Twitter CloudForecast TinySeed Castos Gather TinySeed Tales S2E1 I Introducing Gather TinySeed Tales S1E1 I A Non-Technical Saas Founder If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you.

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