Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 674 | SparkToro Pays Back Investors, When to Raise Funding, and X.com (Hot Take Tuesday)

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In episode 674, ​​join Rob Walling, Einar Vollset, and Tracy Osborn for Hot Take Tuesday, where they analyze and discuss some of the latest news. They talk about Elon rebranding Twitter to X and the emergence of Instagram's Threads. They also cover the pros and cons of taking VC and SparkToro's unique funding model and paying back investors.

Topics we cover: 
  • 2:49 – Twitter is now X
  • 5:53 – Does the rebranding make sense?
  • 12:15 – Instagram launches Threads
  • 19:18 – SparkToro pays back investors
  • 26:04 – Planning ahead for the payback
  • 28:53 – “Don’t take VC funding”
  • 35:11 – “We Raised a Bunch of Money”
    • Links from the Show: 
    • Tracy Osborn (@tracymakes) | Twitter
    • Einar Vollset (@einarvollset) | Twitter
    • The SaaS Playbook
    • TinySeed
    • Twitter is being rebranded as X
    • Introducing Threads: A New Way to Share with Text
    • Rand Fishkin (@randfish ) |Twitter
    • Casey Henry (@caseyhen) |Twitter
    • SparkToro
    • Postpone
    • SparkToro Year 3 Retrospective: Investor Payback, Systemic Challenges, and V2 on the Way
    • Lost and Founder by Rand Fishkin
    • Fly.io
    • We Raised A Bunch Of Money

      • 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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