Tech Cocktail: Bootstrapped And Profitable In 20 Cities – with Frank Gruber

Frank Gruber, Tech Cocktail, Bootstrapping, Content, Customer Acquisition, Scaling

How does and entrepreneur do events in 20 cities and draw 30,000 guests to those events?

Frank Gruber is the founder of Tech Cocktail, which is known for its evening events and conferences for startups and also publishes Tech News.

I want to find out about why he decided to quit his job when he had such a great job and what impact it had on his business. I’m going to ask him how he got his sponsors and what happened to his content since March 2010 that impacted his traffic.

Frank Gruber

Tech Cocktail

Frank Gruber is the founder of Tech Cocktail, which is known for its evening events, conferences for startups, and also publishes Tech News.

 

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