Happy Friday, founders and friends.

Welcome our newest Venture Partner, Alex Cohen 🎉👏

Alex Cohen @anothercohen

The news 🎉 I've joined @bloomvp_ as a venture partner! I've spent the last year thinking about a way to build a fund backed by operator LPs, so when @BartMacdonald suggested joining Bloom's VC Fund to make it happen, I jumped at the opportunity.

Alex Cohen @anothercohen

Some news to share later this week 👀 In the meantime, if you’ve been interested in investing in early stage startups and don’t know where to start, DM me. *Must be accredited

January 21st 2021

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New episode, the full bloom 🎙

Matt Allen (Tractor Ventures, CEO) :: don't raise venture capital | the full bloom 1.5

Fellow Aussie and seasoned founder, Matt Allen, stops by the full bloom to drop wisdom from his 20+ year journey in startups and capital markets.

From self-taught web developer in the late 90's, to CEO of Tractor Ventures, Matt has a scorecard of wins from founding and investing in software businesses around the world. Bart and Matt breakdown the glossary of capital sources and explore investment optionality for founders.

From angels, to private equity, Bart and Matt detail the innovative funding sources startups have access to in 2021.

Coming soon to the full bloom…👀

Jason Calacanis (@Jason) :: talking early stage investing, and what the next generation of SaaS products + founders will look like

Adii Pienaar (@adii) :: bootstrapping + life after multiple exits

Shawn Merani (@smerani) :: raising a fund + state of early stage VC

Howard Lindzon (@howardlindzon) :: talking SaaS stonks & SPACs

Favorites From the Ecosystem

Everything you need to know about micro-private equity in a < 30 minute read (or listen! 🎧) from Mario Gabriele.

Austin Rief ☕️ @austin_rief

Exceptional breakdown of the Micro PE landscape from @mariodgabriele. Featuring a few of my favorite twitter follows: @awilkinson and @BrentBeshore. The State of Micro Private Equity🎧 Listen to the audio here Not every empire is built. A brief look, if you will, at Uncle Sam’s portfolio: 1803: Louisiana purchased from France for $15 million, or three cents per acre. 1848: California, Nevada, Utah purchased from Mexico for $18.25 million, or 21 cents per acre.thegeneralist.substack.com

January 17th 2021

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Your weekly reminder that acquisition and retention are not created equal.

Keith Martin @keithmartin_io

“25%-95% increase in profits can be made just by increasing 5% of customer retention rates and a 30% rise in company value with an increase of 10% of customer retention” — A study by Bain & Company

January 17th 2021

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RationalVC Podcast- From Founder to setting up a VC, PE fund & startup studio: Bart Macdonald

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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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