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Bootstrapping a B2C Startup to +$20k/Month with Buster Benson

Bootstrapping a B2C Startup to +$20k/Month with Buster Benson

Update: 2020-04-12

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Buster Benson (@buster) is the founder of 750 Words, a $5/mo journaling tool. He kept it alive for more than a decade while working at Twitter, Slack, Patreon and running and shutting down Health Month, a startup leveraging social gamification to get its users healthy. Learn about his impressive entrepreneurial journey, how he went from liberal arts to tech, and the downsides of raising VC on this episode of the Failory Podcast.

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Bootstrapping a B2C Startup to +$20k/Month with Buster Benson

Bootstrapping a B2C Startup to +$20k/Month with Buster Benson

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