Acquiring private equity firm for MySiteAuditor invested in Russell's Checkli
Marvin Russell · 1510 Would You Compete In a Super Fragmented Space like Checklists Apps? · Sep 12, 2019 · at 2:40
Marvin Russell, founder of Checkli and former CEO of MySiteAuditor, describes how Checkli received early funding from the firm that bought his previous startup.
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“I do a little bit of consulting for a private equity firm, one of the same firms that bought my last software company, MySight Auditor, and they wanted to stay in the business with me. They told me, like, we want to be in the Marvin business. Whatever you're working on, can we work on it with you? So I had a small loop of investment.”
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