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>>>Sramana Mitra: To me, calling sounds like a mistake.
Braydan Young: Yes. It would have been way better to have a marketing campaign or have a landing page. The knowledge I had was only coming from sales back then. It was brute force.
Sramana Mitra: Unless there is a substantial deal size of at least $10,000 or so, calling doesn’t really work.
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Sramana Mitra: You built something good enough for an MVP.
Braydan Young: Yes. We ended up creating a whole entity out in Pakistan. Business model was a buck a send. It started to take off. We were pretty good at SEO and if you search “send a coffee”, we’d pop up first. We got a letter saying, “Why is our logo all over your website?” They didn’t want resellers. We made a couple of quick bucks, so we packed it in.
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Happy Grasshopper CEO Dan Stewart was a 1Mby1M entrepreneur when we spoke in 2017. Read how he navigated his way to an inflection point that brought him to the cusp of 4x growth.
Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?
Dan Stewart: My family moved around quite a lot as I was growing up. I rarely stayed in a school for more than a year. That took me from West Virginia and Chicago, down to Florida.

Braydan and his cofounder are sales guys who have bootstrapped Sendoso to revenue and then raised over $150 million in VC money to scale an excellent SaaS company. Braydan discusses some of the mistakes and challenges, as well as their many successes.
Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background?
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Entrepreneurs are invited to the 614th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, August 3, 2023, at 8:30 p.m. India IST/ 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST.
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