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Kokakar: Billbooks' development was funded internally by his digital agency

Sagar Kokakar · BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped · Aug 10, 2020 · at 3:19

Sagar Kokakar, founder of Billbooks, describes how he funded the early development of the invoicing tool between 2008 and 2011.

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“I had a digital agency which was internally funding this product.”

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Assertion Not checkable as stated
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Disclosure
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Assertion Not checkable as stated
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