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Hootsuite launched its first MVP in two months

Ryan Holmes · 865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing · Dec 6, 2017 · at 7:16

Hootsuite founder Ryan Holmes describes how quickly Invoke built and released the first version of the social media tool.

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“And we put out a prototype, really rapid, you know MVP, got it out in probably two months, and had immediate traction on it.”

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