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?

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