SaaSquatch closed its first five customers within five days of ideating
Will Fraser · 1169 From $40CPA Model to $900/mo SaaS, 100% yoy growth · Oct 6, 2018 · at 2:51
Will Fraser, co-founder and CEO of SaaS customer referral platform Sasquatch, discusses how the company was founded and acquired its first customers.
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“We gave ourselves five days to kind of start the company, and in those five days went through ideation, customer testing, and sold our first five customers.”
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