Episode 674 | SparkToro Pays Back Investors, When to Raise Funding, and X.com (Hot Take Tuesday)

In episode 674, ​​join Rob Walling, Einar Vollset, and Tracy Osborn for Hot Take Tuesday, where they analyze and discuss some of the latest news. They talk about Elon rebranding Twitter to X and the emergence of Instagram's Threads. They also cover the pros and cons of taking VC and SparkToro's unique funding model and paying back investors.



Topics we cover: 




2:49 – Twitter is now X



5:53 – Does the rebranding make sense?



12:15 – Instagram launches Threads



19:18 – SparkToro pays back investors



26:04 – Planning ahead for the payback



28:53 – “Don’t take VC funding”



35:11 – “We Raised a Bunch of Money”




Links from the Show: 




Tracy Osborn (@tracymakes) | Twitter



Einar Vollset (@einarvollset) | Twitter



The SaaS Playbook



TinySeed



Twitter is being rebranded as X



Introducing Threads: A New Way to Share with Text



Rand Fishkin (@randfish ) |Twitter



Casey Henry (@caseyhen) |Twitter



SparkToro



Postpone



SparkToro Year 3 Retrospective: Investor Payback, Systemic Challenges, and V2 on the Way



Lost and Founder by Rand Fishkin



Fly.io



We Raised A Bunch Of Money




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