Episode 619 | TinySeed Tales s3e1: Moving from Bootstrapped to Mostly Bootstrapped
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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.