Founder pitched during job interviews to land his first startup customers
Indrek Põldvee · 1439 Does sending physical gifts increase LTV of customers? · Jul 3, 2019 · at 7:42
Indrek Põldvee, co-founder of Sorry as a Service, describes his unconventional bootstrapping method for acquiring the startup's earliest customers.
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“I had two job interviews, which I turned into customers. Because in the end of the job, job interview, I realized like, ah, damn, this is not very passionate. And I told them, Hey, okay, I this job is interesting, but I was in a hackathon and let me know what you think of this idea that we're doing. And these people who I had the job interview, they said, okay, let's try this.”
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