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Kate Ryder is the Founder and CEO of Maven Clinic. She details how Maven partnered with consumer brands to run a high-value giveaway (a trip to Noma) to build their initial prospective customer list cheaply.
“We launched it and then we got, I think, I don't know, something like 20,000 emails. And so all of a sudden we were like, wow, like 20,000 names of women from like-minded brands that now we can go market Maven too.”
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