Chappell: Guestio raised $100K+ from pre-seed investors seeing unrelated marketing ads
Travis Chappell · $1 Trial Map: How we used a $1 Guarantee to Break $75k MRR, Instant CAC Payback · Nov 16, 2022 · at 21:52
Guestio founder Travis Chappell is explaining how running paid digital ads generates unexpected business development and fundraising results.
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“We raised over a million last year for, like, a pre-seed round to just get the first version of the software out, and probably over a 100,000 dollars of that came from investors that saw an ad that had nothing to do with advertising or investing in my company.”
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