Vaibhav Sisinty Bootstrapped GrowthSchool With 1 Crore INR and Five Employees
Vaibhav Sisinty · Helping Startups Grow Through Engineered Organic Marketing Ft. Vaibhav Sisinty, Founder-GrowthSchool · Sep 12, 2022 · at 18:03
Vaibhav Sisinty, founder of GrowthSchool, explains how he funded and staffed the company during its initial zero-to-$1M ARR bootstrap phase.
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“I put my own savings and took a small loan from a brother, put like a CR into this business. I'll just start this. And when you're doing this, you're a very small team, right? Teams is expensive. So I had a team of two full-time people and three interns”
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