Kenneth Lee: TravelFlan had under 2,000 paying subscribers by mid-2016
Kenneth Lee · EP 379: Secret Travel App, $120k 2015 with Kenneth Lee · Aug 7, 2016 · at 4:58
Kenneth Lee, founder of TravelFlan, discusses early subscriber traction with Nathan Latka.
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“So, so we have been providing the free services to us until, like, last month, and we recently launched our, like, premium service for services, so, like, it's very low, less than 2000 customers in Asia.”
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