#7: Bootstrapping Your Startup to Acquisition with Einar Vollset

In today’s episode, Einar Vollset  (@einarvollset) joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast.

Einar is currently the Co-Founder and General Partner at Tinyseed, a remote-based startup accelerator designed for early stage, bootstrapped SaaS Founders which provides funding, community, guidance, advice and mentorship.

He is also the Managing Partner of Discretion Capital,  a technology enabled Investment Bank focused on M&A, due diligence and strategic partnership development for tech & technology enabled services businesses.

Einar was a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He is a serial entrepreneur who founded many companies like ReMail which was acquired by Google in 2010, Octopus Mercantile, and AppAftercare, a company which was built from scratch, with zero outside funding, which was completely bootstrapped from zero revenue until acquisition in 2016.

Einar was also CEO at Left Coast R&D, and an advisor at Trigger.io and Biomeme.

During this interview we cover:

Exiting
Investment strategies during a crisis
The importance of having an investment criteria
Initial traction and acceleration programs
Bootstrapping vs. VC funding

Links and mentions:

Tinyseed.com
Discretioncapital.com

Get in touch with Einar:

🐦Twitter: https://twitter.com/einarvollset

More about Akeel:

🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/AkeelJabber

💼 LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/akeel-jabbar

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