Yapp reached SaaS profitability by bootstrapping after a seed round
Maria Seidman · 804: SaaS: Yapp Passes 80,000 Events Powered · Oct 6, 2017 · at 9:21
Maria Seidman, CEO of event app platform Yapp, discusses the company's financial model and funding history with Nathan Latka.
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“The current version of the business, which is a SaaS, you know, a SaaS business that's profitable so we continue to bootstrap.”
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