Donna Valario, CEO of MediaMash, breaks down early customer traction and pre-launch commitments with Nathan Latka.
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“We actually had a customer last year who kind of they put a deposit and they're helping us flesh out the platform. So we're doing it to their specs and we are, we have letters of intent from two more customers that we're hoping to launch February first.”
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