Saumet: Tilkee pivoted sales focus from small businesses to enterprise
Tim Saumet (Tim Salme) · EP 533: $1.5M Raised, $100k MRR Helping 800 Customers Manage and Track Documents with CEO Tim Samulet · Jan 8, 2017 · at 7:33
Tilkee co-founder and CTO Tim Saumet explains Tilkee's market strategy and customer transition to Nathan Latka.
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“So before that we used to sell to a very small companies and we pivoted to enterprise size or much bigger company.”
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