Trust & Will spent roughly $200,000 to develop its MVP
Cody Barbo · Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning · Jun 12, 2020 · at 9:22
Cody Barbo details the pre-seed capital raised and MVP capital expenditures for Trust & Will.
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“And then by the time we finished tech stars, I think we wrapped up like you could call it pre-seed funding, but we had collected about half a million dollars at that point, but we had invested a couple 100,000 to get the product to where it needed to be.”
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