Ross Paquette Is Strongly Against Raising Venture Capital
Ross Paquette · 901 SaaS: Bootstrapped Enterprise Marketing Maropost Passes $36m ARR · Jan 11, 2018 · at 4:06
Ross Paquette, founder of Maropost, describes his bootstrapping philosophy to host Nathan Latka.
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“It wasn't like we had to go out and raise capital. I'm very much against that process. The focus has always been to just, you know, kind of grow by a customer acquisition, not acquisition.”
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