NoNotes bootstrapped to a $1M run rate without outside capital
Matt Whitteker · How to Come up with THREE Ideas | Matt Whitteker, Founder of Assent · PMF Show · Sep 1, 2022 · at 3:30
Matt Whitteker, founder of Assent and NoNotes, discusses the traction and capital efficiency of his transcription startup NoNotes.
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“That turned out to be where the company kind of hit product market fit scaled to millions of users and has been in business for 11 years, kind of like in the million dollar run rate. And it's not a huge venture back company, never raised any outside capital, just kind of bootstrapped it to, you know, where it is today.”
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