Lemlist rejects VC funding to bootstrap and focus entirely on users
Guillaume Moubeche · 1171 New Founder Talks First 30 Days, $160k in Revenue, Next Steps · Oct 8, 2018 · at 12:30
Guillaume Moubeche, co-founder of cold email platform Lemlist, explains his fundraising philosophy and decision to build a bootstrapped company to Nathan Latka.
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“We're not really looking for fundings, because that's not really our vision, and we like the way bootstrapping company works, because I believe we really focus on users, then, you know, we find, like, really market fit, and a channel of acquisition that works, and that is cheap, and then, like, we can grow steady, but you know, like really, and with no kind of VC pressure and all, and so on”
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