Travis Stevenson explains his growth strategy for bootstrapping software products without cold advertising.
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“What I did was I used those joint venture partners to build up an audience, basically to feed my pixel for Facebook, feed my pixel for YouTube. And then you take that audience, you create lookalikes, and now you have amazing startup audiences for Facebook ads, for YouTube ads. And it makes it way easier than just having to jump in and, you know, go at it cold.”
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