In addition to entrepreneurial loneliness, many founders also find themselves stuck in their own head trying to solve increasingly difficult challenges. Even the best founders benefit from a breath of fresh air and new pairs of eyes on their challenges. “But Alex, I don’t have anyone like that in my life!” I can hear you say. Well, dear reader, that’s why you need a mastermind. Read on for what to expect, how to start, and the major benefits to being in a mastermind.

Builder Prime (TS S2020), the all-in-one CRM, estimating, and project management platform designed specifically for home improvement contractors, has secured their Series A funding round led by Blueprint Equity and participation by TinySeed.

We are thrilled to announce we’ve raised $10.38 million USD for a fund primarily targeting early-stage startups in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Read on for more details:

At TinySeed, we greatly value the role of subject-matter experts as mentors, ensuring our founders have access to proficient advice when they encounter challenges or seek insights on industry best practices. We are delighted to introduce six more experts to our mentorship program.

We’re thrilled to welcome these 22 startups spanning 12 countries to our Spring 2022 Americas and EMEA accelerator programs.

We’re huge fans of subject-matter experts as TinySeed mentors, so our founders have skilled voices to access when they have questions or need access to best-practices. We’ve recently added 10 new mentors to the official TinySeed mentor roster. Here are the first five, and we’ll announce the rest next week!

Applications are open for TinySeed’s Spring 2023 accelerator programs, and the TinySeed accelerator team (Rob Walling, Tracy Osborn, and Alex McQuade) hosted a live application info session to answer questions.

The application for our Americas and EMEA Spring 2023 programs will open for two weeks starting February 6th. Read on for an overview of the application and what we ask.

We’re thrilled to welcome these 26 startups spanning 10 countries to our Fall 2022 Americas and EMEA accelerator programs.

Founders have access to a ridiculous amount of useful information. How do you organize and process all of it to make it useful?

Applications are open for TinySeed’s Fall 2022 accelerator programs, and the TinySeed accelerator team (Rob Walling, Tracy Osborn, and Alex McQuade) hosted a live application info session to answer questions

One of the aspects of TinySeed that we’re most proud of is our subject-matter expert and experienced entrepreneur mentor roster. We believe strongly in having a range of folks with different expertises and specialties, as access to these experienced voices can make a 10-100x difference in a founder’s speed of execution. We’ve recently added four amazing folks to our roster:

We’re excited to launch our TinySeed Job Board! We know that there are a lot of talented people in our ecosystem who are interested in working with a bootstrapped SaaS company. We already have a lot of exciting jobs coming in, and we expect that to continue to grow.

TinySeed was designed to be remote-first, but we also know the power of in-person experiences. This is why we’ve designed our accelerator to have in-person retreat opportunities and meetups throughout the accelerator year, so our founders get to meet the TinySeed team, get to meet each other, and build deeper connections within our TinySeed community.

This year is a big one for us, as we’re now running two concurrent programs — our Americas accelerator and our brand new Europe SaaS accelerator for startups headquartered in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. We’re proud to welcome these 23 startups to our Spring 2022 accelerator programs.

TinySeed and MicroConf produce an annual State of Independent SaaS (SOIS) report. We’ve surveyed hundreds of bootstrapped founders and gained some interesting insights, and we’re here to today to share what we see are the SaaS trends for 2022.

Bootstrapping tends to get a bad rap from investors and founders alike. But Mailchimp has proven that when you get it right, unbelievable success can follow. The question you’re probably asking is, “how did they do it?” Here’s how Mailchimp grew from humble beginnings to a $12 billion dollar acquisition (and the lessons you can take away from their strategy).

On January 25th, the TinySeed accelerator team (Rob Walling, Tracy Osborn, and Alex McQuade) hosted a live info session to answer questions about the upcoming Spring 2022 accelerator programs. Check out the recording here.

There are so many tech stack roundup articles online. Many contain the most popular tech tools with little consideration being given to some of the newest players on the scene. This article gives these new players the spotlight they deserve while providing startup founders with viable options to meet their growing needs.

With the new TinySeed Europe accelerator program, we’ll be able to give founders in European time zones (including in Africa and the Middle East) the capital, advice, mentorship, and community they need to grow their companies faster. Here’s what that looks like.