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In 2020, we bought out our investor's shares, we gave back €200K from a loan and I finally bought my co-founder's shares. What a year!
Startup Journey

In 2020, we bought out our investor's shares, we gave back €200K from a loan and I finally bought my co-founder's shares. What a year!

In our last article, we shared our crazy last year at PixelMe after raising $1.3M. Specifically, we explained why...

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From €1M raised to a Cease and Desist letter from Facebook and 5 Layoffs: the crazy last year at PixelMe
Startup Journey

From €1M raised to a Cease and Desist letter from Facebook and 5 Layoffs: the crazy last year at PixelMe

Our last transparency article was in August 2019 😱 it seems it’s always easier to be transparent when everything is going great…As a quick reminder, in October 2018 we decided to raise €1M after 1 year bootstrapping. At the time our MRR was at $ 10K with a €4M+ pre-money valuation! So our investors got 22% of the company and each of us got 26%...

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How we got +5,000 signups in one week with our side project Adinbox.me
Startup Journey

How we got +5,000 signups in one week with our side project Adinbox.me

This the story on how we (the PixelMe team) launched a side project marketing during summer 19’ and why we decided to build a Saas product out of it 🙂 You might want to take a ☕️and some 🍿it’s going to be a bit long!

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From 200 to 400 paying customers & 6 months into our seed round! Welcome to the Startup Rollercoaster 🎢 😎
Startup Journey

From 200 to 400 paying customers & 6 months into our seed round! Welcome to the Startup Rollercoaster 🎢 😎

Really?? It’s already been 6 months? 😱😅Yes, it’s been more than 6 months since we’ve shared with you all the story behind our first round and why we decided to finally raise one. As you’ve probably understood by now, we do not have any rules when it comes to sharing our updates...

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Why we decided to raise $1.3M after 1 year bootstrapping and how everything happened
Startup Journey

Why we decided to raise $1.3M after 1 year bootstrapping and how everything happened

First, sorry we’ve been quite silent in the past months since our last update about Phishing and how we went from 10 to 200 paying customers.Being quiet doesn’t mean nothing happened for us and for PixelMe 😀

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The PixelMe backstory: how “phishing” almost killed our company 😱
Startup Journey

The PixelMe backstory: how “phishing” almost killed our company 😱

Back in December 2017, PixelMe had been on the market for two months. Remember that we shared a bit about our journey on how we created PixelMe, had a successful Appsumo promotion, and grew to 200 monthly paying customers.

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