SalesRoads was bootstrapped aside from $5,000 in Wharton pitch prize money
David Krieger · SalesRoads: SaaS Companies Hire Him To Build SDR Team · Aug 3, 2020 · at 18:03
David Krieger, founder of SDR agency SalesRoads, discusses the company's funding history with Nathan Latka.
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“So I got I think it was 3005 thousand dollars from the Wharton business plane competition. The rest was all bootstrapped.”
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