Ben Jabowi
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Small marketing team of three.
And one salesperson.
We launched this product, we had a completely separate product that failed.
But we launched this product in January 15.
Oh, man, we so it's a long story.
I'll make it short.
We were focusing on brick and mortar retail, giving them kind of a SaaS platform to help them track
which of their kind of online audience was actually walking into their store with phones using offers.
So this online, yeah, super cool.
A bunch of techies get excited about it.
Exactly.
And just hard to sell into.
That's really nice of you to say.
had a suspicion that this was going to be a slog.
So we had two M&A offers on the table, more like acqui-hire type situations.
So we decided to pursue those.
And then we were kind of right on the finish line with one of them and it fell apart.
So, you know, the bank account was basically zero.
We had about a thousand dollars in the account and the deal fell apart.
So we were really forced to say, are we shutting down?