Hootsuite Bootstrapped Its First Year Using Seven Digital Agency Employees
Ryan Holmes · 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria! · Oct 28, 2016 · at 4:08
Ryan Holmes, founder and CEO of Hootsuite, explains how Hootsuite was initially incubated and funded internally within his 21-person agency before seeking external funding.
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“We worked for the first year. It was bootstrapped within the agency and classic, you know, entrepreneurial story. We had seven people from a 21 person team working on a zero revenue product.”
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