I think the terms they came to were pretty generous to the buyer. Michael brings a lot of value to the deal as a seller, there isn't going to be a hidden gotcha, more likely hidden benefits of forward thinking you'd uncover over time.
Lock-in or additional hours from Michael wouldn't be needed, the product isn't awfully complex, and I'm sure everything is more documented than you would expect.
What I would have liked to do would be to use the company as a scaffold to develop a larger mid-market offering. I don't like mid-market that much, but they are much more willing to cobble together a better, cheaper solution, rather than just buy whatever package that HP or Dell is offering.
I would also try to sign up and train some government focused resellers to see if we can make progress in that segment. USG is very favorable to small businesses. Control over the supply chain would be a selling point to USG as well.
I would also try to partner with someone like System76 or a similar US manufacturer to make the existing TinyPilot product be a recommended KVM component for their server and small compute offerings.
> I would also try to sign up and train some government focused resellers to see if we can make progress in that segment. USG is very favorable to small businesses. Control over the supply chain would be a selling point to USG as well.
You have a procurement onboarding process that's just sitting around right now? I've been looking at small, local companies that will be closing due to lack of staff/interest once the owner calls it quits.
Lock-in or additional hours from Michael wouldn't be needed, the product isn't awfully complex, and I'm sure everything is more documented than you would expect.
What I would have liked to do would be to use the company as a scaffold to develop a larger mid-market offering. I don't like mid-market that much, but they are much more willing to cobble together a better, cheaper solution, rather than just buy whatever package that HP or Dell is offering.
I would also try to sign up and train some government focused resellers to see if we can make progress in that segment. USG is very favorable to small businesses. Control over the supply chain would be a selling point to USG as well.
I would also try to partner with someone like System76 or a similar US manufacturer to make the existing TinyPilot product be a recommended KVM component for their server and small compute offerings.