This week, and for the next six weeks, we're going to have episodes of Tiny Seed Tales

Season 3 in your feed on Thursday morning. So you get a special bonus episode for this next

six weeks. If you're not familiar with Tiny Seed Tales, it's a seasonal show where I interview

a founder across about a year's time. I believe these six episodes were recorded over

somewhere between 10 and 14 months. And the idea is to give you some insight into the ups and

the downs, the struggles, the victories, and the failures of a real startup founder growing

a real SaaS company that was bootstrapped until they took money from Tiny Seat. And so in

season one, I interviewed Craig

Hewitt, founder of Castos, who many of you are familiar with. In season two, it was Brian and

Scotty, the husband and wife pair founders of Gather. And in this season, it is Tony Chan from Cloud

Forecast. I never know what to expect when we start one of these seasons because it is just a

conversation framing their business and finding out where are we headed with this. And some of

these episodes are massive wins and some are crushing defeats and a lot are in between. And if you're

not familiar with Tiny Seed, it's the startup accelerator that I run for bootstrapped SaaS companies.

We run applications twice a year,

and in fact, our next application period opens on September 12th,

just a couple weeks from now, and that will run for two weeks.

So with that, let's dive in to Season 3, Episode 1 of Tiny Seed Tales.

From the very beginning, we were very focused on building a bootstrap business,

cash positive, profitable, to a point where we've turned down offers to raise money

or to be part of accelerators because it just did not fit our convictions.

And what we felt was best for the company.

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