Bootstrapping Using Facebook Ads to $5M: Dow Janes Co-founders Laurie-Anne King and Britt Baker (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Did you follow the same strategy in the second year? Britt Baker: Exactly. Sramana Mitra: Very interesting. It doesn’t sound like you need to make any change. You just keep executing and put more money into Facebook. Is that correct? Britt Baker: That works well until your Facebook ad account gets shut down.

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Bootstrapping Using Facebook Ads to $5M: Dow Janes Co-founders Laurie-Anne King and Britt Baker (Part 3)

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Bootstrapping Using Facebook Ads to $5M: Dow Janes Co-founders Laurie-Anne King and Britt Baker (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Britt, get us to the point where you launched Dow Janes. How did you get yourselves off the ground? Britt Baker: It’s the fall of 2019. I have another job at that time that I decided was not my passion. I’d be going to dinner parties and cocktail parties and everyone would ask

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