Pinata built its initial MVP using an external development shop
Lily Liu · She saved equity, used dev shop for new PropTech SaaS, breaks $1m in revenue · May 31, 2022 · at 10:01
Lily Liu, CEO of rental rewards startup Pinata, explains how the company launched its mobile and web platforms without an engineering co-founder.
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“You know, we actually found a development partner. And so we, you know, we basically iterated on that MVP initially with a development partner.”
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