Welcome back to startups with the rest of us. I'm Rob Walling, and in this episode, I sit down with Anar Volset, co-founder of Tiny Seed, and we take it in a little different direction than we normally do.

Oftentimes, when we talk about Tiny Seed, we will talk about things that we've learned investing across.

All these SaaS companies that could help you as a B2B SaaS founder, or maybe I'll

interview a Tiny Seed founder so we can take learnings and apply them to the broader community

and the broader audience. But in this episode, Anar and I talk through something that he actually

knew quite a bit about when we started Tiny Seed, and I knew very, very little about, and that is startup investing

and venture investing and why people would invest in a fund versus investing individually.

We talk a little bit about the math of venture and how and why Tiny Seed is so different,

but we also talk about the fact that the venture industrial

complex has really left behind thousands and thousands of startup founders. And that really was and

still is the goal of Tiny Seed. As you know, my mission is to multiply the world's population of

independent self-sustaining startups.

Tiny Seed is part of that because no one else was serving that market when we stepped in.

And so this episode is a bit of inside baseball.

It's a look behind the curtain of running a venture fund and Tiny Seed and even a bit about

the broader venture space,

I find this stuff super interesting because it's not something that I have ever been exposed to

before running this fund. And who better to explain it than Tiny Seed co-founder, A&R.

Bullset. Before we dive into our conversation, MicroConfnect applications are open until tomorrow, January 15th.

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If you sign up in the next couple days, you get access to our upcoming workshop with Kate Summa on January 23rd of 2025.

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