Tara Reed: Growth Spree companies share centralized marketing and agency resources
Tara Reed · Startup Acquisition Stories with Tara Reed CEO at Apps Without Code · Nov 15, 2021 · at 11:20
Tara Reed, CEO of Apps Without Code and Growth Spree, discusses her operational framework for managing acquired micro-SaaS portfolio companies.
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“And so the, all of the growth spree companies are sharing marketing agency operations, a couple of different resources, if that makes sense, but then they have a point of contact who's usually the CTO.”
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