Kale: Mailtag bootstrapped with $250K in founder capital
Rishikesh Kale · 1529 Will This Company Ever Scale Past $6k/mo? · Oct 1, 2019 · at 4:59
Rishikesh Kale discusses the initial funding and capitalization of email productivity SaaS Mailtag.
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“We bootstrap it with a seed capital. We put our own capital around two 50 K”
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