Conversocial's parent agency invested $500K into the product before spin-out
Josh March · 830: SaaS: With $20m Raised, $10m+ ARR, He's For Enterprise Customer Management on Social Media · Nov 1, 2017 · at 7:12
Josh March explains how Conversocial was incubated and financed internally using revenue from his bootstrapped agency iPlatform.
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“We probably invested like half a million dollars of essentially our own money before then, because the agency was fully bootstrapped.”
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