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Building a portfolio of SaaS companies

Hi everyone. My name is Danny and I'm cofounder at xo.capital.

We've been building our portfolio of companies for about 2 years. We have 7 companies in our portfolio: 2 exits and 5 currently operating. I'm currently the main "operator" for all 5 businesses, and I have an awesome team who keeps things going for each of the companies.

We recently had one of our companies on acquire.com as a seller, and it was awesome just to connect with so many people like us, trying to build a portfolio of SaaS businesses.

I enjoy being in my little home office working away quietly, but it's become apparent I need to be better about exercising my writing muscles and just communicating in general.

Shout-out to this IH community because this is where I met one of my cofounders of xo.capital several years ago and because it's humbling just to see people putting themselves out in the public.

I hope to post once a week about lessons learned, company updates, and growth experiments we are testing, so tune in if you're interested.

In the meantime, I'm preparing to launch a newsletter called "Grow and Tell". It will be a fun and insightful way for people to share lessons learned about various growth experiments for their respective companies.

If you're interested in sharing a story, email me at [email protected]. You can see an example of what I'm going for here: https://www.growpage.io/sheet-best/. Feedback on this is welcome btw :)

Cheers,
Danny

, Founder of Icon for XO Capital
XO Capital
on March 1, 2023
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    Thanks for sharing, Danny! If you're looking to monetise the newsletter at any point, or want to talk growth / strategy, I know a guy ;)

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    Hi Danny, interested in being featured. I have a few projects I'm working on that you can see on my IndieHackers profile.

    1. hacksocial.ai is a chrome extension that makes it easier to give more than you get on social media with AI-assisted replies
    2. gpt3meter.com is a payments infrastructure platform to enable openai app developers to easily implement usage-based billing. (This is a solution I planned as I ran into problems implementing payments plans that made sense on hacksocial.ai)
    3. Leadgraph -- not a founder, just an advisor. An all-in-one B2B search engine to enable reps to do research on target accounts and find contact info for their prospects. Granular search based on technologies and skills.

    Worthwhile to continue the conversation?