Dmitriy Pavlov
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Yeah.
So I'll give you a range.
Maybe it's in the realm of 100K or so.
We actually, we did raise last year.
We were, I guess, officially considered venture-backed at this point, which is really cool.
We've brought on board some really, really good folks that are strategic investors.
We're very careful about not over-raising.
How much did you raise?
We raised a little over $100,000 last year, which let us essentially get into our strategic accounts right now.
And out of those folks, we're actually able to bring on board a couple of really strategic advisors that are very senior at some very targeted firms for us.
So initially, I did put a lot of money behind this and made a bunch of stupid mistakes.
That was before really even Stitched Insights took shape.
We burned money on tests and designs and things that were โ How bad was it?
Yeah, actually a little under $100,000.
grand maybe maybe like 50 grand of building a website we didn't really need that since then a bunch of founder stories that were really true and since then I've realized okay we can actually bootstrap a lot of this in a way that partnerships let you bootstrap in a way that you couldn't otherwise so GSV Labs
We're a portfolio company of GSV Labs, so through that partnership, we have lots of really great discounts and credits and things like that that we've been leveraging.
There's law services and there's hosting services.
There are hundreds of thousands of dollars of credits, for instance.
The other side of this is we do have cheap labor, essentially, because the folks that are involved with the company really believe in what we're doing.
So the team right now has grown to 13 folks.