Haney funded Volpine Interactive with $150K from poker savings and an investor
Derek Haney · 747: This This Six Figure Poker Player Quit to Launch Agency · Aug 10, 2017 · at 5:28
Derek Haney, founder of Volpine Interactive, explains how he initially funded the launch of his digital marketing agency.
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“2015, we got funding 50 K from a poker friend of mine, combined that with my poker bankroll, which I was still using to play poker, and so then I kind of withdrew the bankroll from poker. It was a little over a hundred K. Okay. And so, so basically a 150 or so K in total.”
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