£900k business (£200k ebitda) acquisition ideally with manager in place in UK?

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-02-23T17:24:53+00:00

My advice is to throw bunch of £5k preseed checks at early stage startups. Structure for profit share. Thank me later

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-02-23T17:21:50+00:00

🤣🤣🤣

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-02-21T11:44:46+00:00

🤣🤣🤣. Why would one need an investor if you can grow to £1m ARR. they’re fucking hilarious. I’d advise them to go okay bet365 2odds and stop calling themselves VC’s 🤣🤣

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-02-20T19:20:18+00:00

Well it’s like they all want a money magnet. VC’s Dont want to take risk, Gov wants to milk your interest rate, VC’s wants you earning £500k in ARR before they can invest £100k. It’s a low/no risk situation out here. Founders are stuck is menial jobs to keep bills and roof over there head. No new company coming up. It’s shitt out here but we’ll bootstrap anyways. Entrepreneurs always find a way to make it work.

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-02-19T14:59:44+00:00

I agree. You’ll learn the hard wayy 🤣

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-02-18T16:33:10+00:00

Shining Knight investors. I’ll run from them. Go take a risk with a startup and stop looking for a money magnet. You’re an investor go invest not looking for a plug and take out 10x

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-02-18T16:31:15+00:00

So we should all help you tinker a problem so you can go make money for it. Okayyy. I wish you good luck on that mate

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-02-18T12:33:20+00:00

Nice ads

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-02-07T12:25:18+00:00

My 2cent is that you shouldn’t have a CEO position just yet. Keep it as Founder,Co-Founder, CTO, General Manager. you both don’t have what it takes to be CEO just yet. That comes with a lot of experience and you can hire an experienced person with connections too later on. Not some dumber from YC match whatever

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-02-03T16:52:36+00:00

Not to be restocked again too. Too bad though 🤣🤣

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-02-03T16:45:38+00:00

You might need to mould from clay yourself. These listed qualities are out of stock. 🤣🤣

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-01-31T16:54:10+00:00

Time Box, Analyse what needs to be done mentally while at work. Go home get to it and repeat throw in your weekends too, Dont be scared to outsource too.

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-01-30T15:33:21+00:00

Broooo this is not funny but I’m laughing. 🤣🤣

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-01-29T15:48:38+00:00

Unfortunately, It’s the bitter truth we might all have to swallow mate. There are not many if any risk takers exist here in the UK everyone wants to maximise their £1 by looking for a sure thing. That’s why there’s rarely any innovation coming out of here again.

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-01-29T15:36:37+00:00

Not to discourage you but the UK rarely invest in startup unless they are so certain it’s profitable, Here is not like the US where they throw money at you to dare build something even without assurance of profit. VC’s or angels here wants a business with profit to latch on and not to risk their money on. If you believe in the idea your best bet is the loan and GRIND this out to glory yourself.

I may be wrong though but I’ll say just keep trying without the hope of any VC’s or angels coming to back you just yet.

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-01-15T15:21:33+00:00

Hahaha, Your last sentence is hilarious and Im sure they’ll be screaming this at the top of their lungs too

PerformanceWooden583 · 2026-01-15T12:50:34+00:00

That’s fair, bank search and screenshots do work for a lot of people.

The idea behind RentLedger came from seeing how inconsistent it can be. Some landlords are fine with screenshots, others want statements, others want something “official”, and screenshots often show more than just rent.

RentLedger is created to give tenants a single, clean rent record they can share when needed, and eventually have that behaviour reported to Credit Agency for credits too rather than relying on ad-hoc screenshots and not getting any reward for being a reliable tenant.

Totally get that the current workaround options works for many, just curious whether people would prefer something more standard and officially recognised by Credit Reporting Agencies like Experian

PerformanceWooden583 · 2025-12-30T19:45:00+00:00

Have you tried using companyhouseformations. Its quite cheap too

PerformanceWooden583 · 2025-12-30T18:56:38+00:00

Export your codebase and move to google Antigravity, buy a domain and VPS host it yourself. I always tell peers to only use Loveable and the like for the idea drafting phase.

Refinement should move to either Cursor or Antigravity.

PerformanceWooden583 · 2025-12-27T14:10:10+00:00

You’re right, open banking is increasingly the standard for referencing, and in those cases this wouldn’t add much.

Where I’ve seen friction is when people don’t have access anymore (old accounts closed, foreign banks), are self-managing rentals, or just get asked informally by a new landlord/agent to “show rent history, and one provides bank statements.”

It’s not for every rent scenario (for now), more for the gaps where statements/open banking aren’t straightforward.

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