Navigating Growth: Bootstrapping vs. Venture Capital

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.