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MailChimp’s Bootstrapping Journey: From Garage to $12B 🚀 The Problem:In 2001, Ben Chestnut and Dan Kurzius started MailChimp as a side project. No VC funding, just a small web design agency struggling to meet client demands for email newsletters.

Mailchimp's Bootstrapped Success Story How does a side project become a multi-billion dollar company without a single penny of outside investment? I'm about to share the inspiring journey of Mailchimp, a testament to the power of patient growth. ✅

How a Bootstrapped Startup Grew to a $12 Billion Exit This is Mailchimp, a 2001 startup by Ben, Mark, and Dan, which was started as a side hustle to support small businesses with email marketing. It was a basic paid tool that let you send emails to

🎯 What is the Ad-Supported Revenue Model? 🎯 In an ad-supported revenue model, businesses offer products or services for free (or at a low cost) while earning revenue by displaying advertisements to their users. How it works: 1️⃣ You attract a lar

Runway Releases Gen-4 Al Model Runway's newly released Gen-4 Al model represents a significant advancement in video generation technology, offering creators unprecedented control over character consistency, physics simulation, and world-building acro

Mailchimp grew from a humble side project to a $12 billion acquisition without venture capital by aligning success with customers’ growth. Their freemium model let small businesses start free, naturally upgrading as they scaled. Every email became an

A fundamental product principle I’ve observed is that a lot of products tap into a human motivation that has nothing to do with the product and then retain the user by leveraging motivation more aligned to product offerings For example ⬇️ Super.mo

Currently medial is pre-revenue and free for users. If they start subscription or freemium model, will you continue to use it and if continue, which model will you choose? (If medial is finding this post, can you tell us what would be your revenue m

Day 6 - Created a visual business model Used miro to design and declutter my core offering as a business. Realized the importance of visual representation to establish clarity. Link is in my bio if anyone wants to check it out.

What if edtech companies had a subscription based model instead of taking the entire fees upfront? Do you think it will sustain? The pro of subscription model is that users will not struggle for refund (users of most edtech companies are complaining