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Bernhard Hauser

Bernhard Hauser

📍 Vienna, Austria https://www.hauser.io

3 Things I Started Working on Right After the Pixel Acquisition

After the Pixel acquisition was finalized about two weeks ago, I started working on what I deemed the three most important tasks. Generally speaking, for founders who work on a business for many years, it’s easy to develop tunnel vision when it comes to the product they are building.

B2B Payment Solution – Waterglass Deal Review #4

0:00 /4:03 1× I screen dozens of small businesses each week. With Waterglass Deal Reviews, I share some of them. Today, we are evaluating a B2B SaaS company that operates as a Shopify plugin for payment reminders. * Industry Focus: B2B, Payment Solutions * Company Age: 2 years * Financials: $700

B2B Marketing – Waterglass Deal Review #3

0:00 /4:54 1× I screen dozens of small businesses each week. With Waterglass Deal Reviews, I share some of them. Today, we are evaluating a B2B SaaS company that creates marketing copy for businesses with the help of AI. * Industry Focus: B2B, Marketing * Company Age: 2 years * Financials:

The First Acquisition: Pixel

It's done. The first acquisition has been finalized this week! I'm very excited to welcome Pixel (pxl.to) to the Waterglass portfolio. Pixel is a leading short link, QR code and microsite builder for marketers, based in Great Britain (UK). The founder of Pixel will remain on board as an

eCommerce Payments – Waterglass Deal Review #2

0:00 /4:48 1× I screen dozens of small businesses each week. With Waterglass Deal Reviews, I share some of them. Today, we are exploring a similar business like last time. It, too, empowers other small businesses by enabling them to set up online stores in under 60 seconds.

eCommerce Payments – Waterglass Deal Review #1

0:00 /3:26 1× I screen dozens of small businesses each week. With Waterglass Deal Reviews, I share some of them. Today, we are looking at a very small business that helps other businesses setting up online stores. * Industry Focus: eCommerce, Payments * Company Age: Less than a year old

The Basics of Micro PE: The Right Price and The Right Terms

The market is a wonderful imaginary thing, especially in micro PE. I mean, any deal is about finding the right price for which the seller is willing to sell and the buyer is willing to buy. But between these two prices lies a pretty broad area in which the terms

The Basics of Micro PE: Where and What to Buy

In this edition, you will learn where a micro PE fund looks for opportunities and what criteria they have to meet. I will also dive deeper into some of your most frequent questions, such as: * Who would even sell a company so early? * What do you really get for such

The Independent 'Micro PE' Entrepreneur

For the past 10+ years, I have been working with startups, and B2B SaaS in particular, across different settings: I bootstrapped a startup, At Meta I started and operated a startup accelerator in Berlin, I 'corporate ventured' a startup and I consulted companies in Germany & Austria. With all that experience,

Search-driven vs. discovery-driven products

Whenever I evaluate a venture or consider a potential new product, my first step is to understand how this idea will engage its initial users. On a high level, I categorize them into two groups: search-driven and discovery-driven products. Search-driven implies that users are aware of the problem and actively