Vertical IQ founders personally invested hundreds of thousands to bootstrap
Bobby Martin · EP 541: VerticalIQ Hits $175k MRR, Helping 140 Banks Prep for Company Meetings with President Bobby Martin · Jan 16, 2017 · at 17:33
Bobby Martin describes the personal capital he and his co-founders invested to bootstrap Vertical IQ.
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“We put in hundreds of thousands of dollars. I'll say that.”
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