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XO Capital - Field Notes

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Feb 2023 What up XO fam. I've had plenty of caffeine this morning so I'm going to be firing from the hip on...
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What up XO fam. I've had plenty of caffeine this morning so I'm going to be firing from the hip on this one. Example: Guys (and gals). Listen. buying MRR is lovely. Here's proof (and 13 people agreed). If you haven't tried
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Focus How to be consistently productive? This is Danny from XO Capital chiming in for this edition of...
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How to be consistently productive? This is Danny from XO Capital chiming in for this edition of Friday Notes. Productivity is something I've struggled with over the past several years. Shouldn't I have this figured out as a 33-year old? Isn't my job as
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Hype Staying disciplined is hard. With all the hype around "AI" or more specifically all the hype around...
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Staying disciplined is hard. With all the hype around "AI" or more specifically all the hype around gpt-3 enabled products, it's never been more important to stay disciplined with your investing thesis. Moments like these create fortunes. A few of the 2,000 AI writers are
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Anatomy Of A Turnaround We accidentally bought a turnaround. Now, to be clear most of the products we've purchased would...
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We accidentally bought a turnaround. Now, to be clear most of the products we've purchased would fall into the distressed category. 2 have been proper distressed venture deals (former YC companies). But even the tiny ones that are half baked, I'd still consider those distressed....
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March 2023 Round Up If you've been missing my dulcet tones check out my most recent interview with Jaryd Krause from...
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If you've been missing my dulcet tones check out my most recent interview with Jaryd Krause from Buying Online Businesses Audio Version ‎Buying Online Businesses Podcast: How To Start Buying & Flipping Small Saas Businesses with Andrew Pierno on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Buying...
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Long live the minnows! XO is 2.5 years old. We're starting to have some history. Recent milestones include the first ever...
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XO is 2.5 years old. We're starting to have some history. Recent milestones include the first ever product we have grown 10x since acquiring it. We bought Screenshot API, our very first acquisition, when it was making $500 MRR. It's now over $5k MRR. $500
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Some Podcasts + 1 Growth Tactic To Steal Your boy was on two pods the past few weeks.  Can I still talk like this at 33? The Startup...
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Your boy was on two pods the past few weeks.  Can I still talk like this at 33? The Startup Blueprint Episode 9 - Don't Build It.... Buy It? Acquiring a $1M ARR Portfolio This is a great intro from the perspective of Indie Hackers looking to
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Making freemium work It's hard to get anyone to pay for something once they've had it for free. Inlytics,...
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It's hard to get anyone to pay for something once they've had it for free. Inlytics, ScreenshotAPI.net, Sheet.Best, and now, Cold DM all have one thing in common: Freemium model We believe companies with a PLG model are great acquisition targets for XO. We
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Oct 2022 Portfolio Updates The three co-founders of XO got together last weekend in South Carolina for a weekend of golf and...
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The three co-founders of XO got together last weekend in South Carolina for a weekend of golf and just hanging out. I am by far the crappiest golfer on the team... it's truly an evil sport. I think I'm also the shortest. Anyways ... We get together
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September 2022 Updates I don't know about you guys but September felt weird. Between all the rate hikes, inflation data,...
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I don't know about you guys but September felt weird. Between all the rate hikes, inflation data, stock market drops, and crypto chills it was a tough month for sales. Also feels like nobody in tech is around August and September (myself included this year!). TLDR; September...
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Platform Risk Platform risk is when another company controls your destiny. This week there was a big scare with...
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Platform risk is when another company controls your destiny. This week there was a big scare with Twitter's enforcement of a policy they claim had been around for a while. Twitter’s new developer terms ban third-party clients | Engadget Twitter has quietly updated its...
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Cash Accumulation When we started two years ago I naively thought I'd read enough Twitter threads to understand that...
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When we started two years ago I naively thought I'd read enough Twitter threads to understand that basically all we needed to do to win was: buy good businesses (hard) accumulate excess cash (hardest) redeploy that cash (harder) However, we now have two years of operating...
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3 Lessons Operating 5 micro-SaaS Companies in 2022 Hey it's Danny. Happy new year! January 1, 2022 we had 3 full-time employees at XO Capital. Myself,...
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Hey it's Danny. Happy new year! January 1, 2022 we had 3 full-time employees at XO Capital. Myself, the operator, 1 engineer and 1 support person were operating Sheet.Best, ScreenshotAPI.net and WorkClout. In March 2022 we acquired Inlytics.io. Shortly after, we brought on 2 more
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Turning $300k into $1.3M (2022 Annual Review) 2022 proved XO's business model. We were able to source deals, close them, grow them, and in some...
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2022 proved XO's business model. We were able to source deals, close them, grow them, and in some cases sell them. We grew to 6 full time people (not including myself and Henry). We joined the 6 figure club and proudly bootstrapped our way to low six figures
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Acquisition #7 - Cold DM This week we closed on a Twitter DM tool. Check It Out It's the smallest deal we've ever done. Are...
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This week we closed on a Twitter DM tool. Check It Out It's the smallest deal we've ever done. Are we going backwards? What's up? We're working on our largest deal ever. Hopefully it will close early next year, we're