Happy Friday, founders and friends.

Bloom is on a rocket ship in 2021 🚀 Thanks for being on this journey with us. Check out what we’ve been up to so far this year…

the full bloom 🎙

the full bloom 1.4 :: KP, the future of startups is building in public

This is a must listen for first-time founders and makers entering the market 🔥 Thank you for joining us, KP!

@thisisKP_ continues his journey of building in public on this episode of the full bloom. Hear how KP has become known as "The Build In Public Guy" across the tech and no-code ecosystems- growing a community of more than 8,000 Twitter followers and landing his dream job at On Deck.

Bart Macdonald and KP sync on the thesis of building in public, and chat about how founders and makers can benefit from growing an audience. Then KP takes us on a journey of the no-code movement, and shares what it means for the future of startups.

Available on :: Spotify, Apple Podcasts & MP3

Bloom Portfolio Announcement

Around 40% of Americans struggle to come up with $400 for an unexpected expense, according to a 2019 survey from the Federal Reserve. That was well before the pandemic forced a nationwide economic crisis.

We are excited to back Secure’s mission to help fix this! Congrats to the Secure team on their raise 👏

Favorites from the Ecosystem

Bart Macdonald, Managing Partner of Bloom Venture Partners, shares his journey in venture backed SaaS companies and the origins of BloomVP.

Enjoy this 30 minute episode of The Exit- Presented by Flippa 🎧

The TL;DR of this week in fintech

ashleypaston @ashleypaston

Crazy week in fintech, but it’s only Wednesday.... 💔 @Plaid / @Visa Breakup 🛒 @Walmart getting into fintech 🛍 @Affirm pricing at ~$15B 🌪@blendlabsinc raising $300m @ $3.3B Ⓜ️@mX raising $300m 🏃‍♂️@RapydPayments raising $300m @ $2.5B 🚛Relay Payments raising $43mm

January 13th 2021

87 Retweets395 Likes

Distribution, distribution, distribution…

Simon Høiberg @SimonHoiberg

Where to promote your SaaS Product? Here are 8 great places to plug your project and get some traction going 🚀 1️⃣ Product Hunt 2️⃣ BetaList 3️⃣ Hacker News 4️⃣ Indie Hackers 5️⃣ Reddit - Entrepreneur 6️⃣ Reddit - SaaS 7️⃣ Reddit - SideProject 8️⃣ BetaPage 🌐👇

January 15th 2021

27 Retweets174 Likes

Be on the lookout for this 👀

Bart Macdonald • Bloomvp.com @BartMacdonald

Thinking of doing a Twitter AMA next week, talking about Private Equity, VC, SaaS, how we're growing the @bloomvp_ Fund, etc. Should I do it? (s/o @mark_rosner + @k17ubha for the inspiration)

January 15th 2021

4 Likes

Shots fired 😬

Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke

Enterprise SaaS website vs. the product they sell that got them to $5b ARR

January 13th 2021

64 Retweets1,019 Likes

A quick reminder heading into Q1 👀

George Mack @george__mack

Peter Thiel on his first corporate career: “From the outside, everybody wanted to get in... but on the inside, everybody wanted to get out.” This sentence always gives me goosebumps. Internal metrics > External metrics

January 9th 2021

183 Retweets1,759 Likes

Open Roles

Bloom portfolio company, Pogo, is building the world's most powerful platform to understand real-time consumer behavior.

Pogo is on the hunt for the next greatest Software Engineer (backend or full stack) to join their mission.

Learn More Here 🛠🚀

End Note

Thanks for joining us for another edition of the weekly bloom. At Bloom Venture Partners we buy, build + invest in SaaS.

We’re excited to continue backing remarkable teams on their quest of changing the way we work, live + create.

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