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Serpstat began inside Netpeak agency with a $5,000 monthly burn rate

Artem Borodatyuk · 842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017 · Nov 13, 2017 · at 6:20

Artem Borodatyuk is the founder of Netpeak Group and Serpstat. He details the internal development costs before spinning out the SaaS tool.

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“We had money in net peak for sub start growth at the beginning, but we had no dedicated team. So it's, it was a 5000 dollar burn rate for this company. It's very easy. I mean, yeah, per month.”

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