How Kyle Racki persevered with building Proposify even when he didn’t have enough money to pay a toll

Kyle Racki, Proposify, B2B, Customer Acquisition, Mental Game, SaaS (software as a service)

How did Kyle Racki persevere with building Proposify even when he didn’t have enough money to pay a toll?

Kyle Racki is the Founder of Proposify, which allows companies to make better proposals faster to win more business.

Kyle Racki launched Proposify in 2013 and he and his co-founders almost gave up in that first year but despite huge obstacles now they have 2500 paying customers.

Kyle Racki

Proposify

Kyle Racki is the Founder of Proposify, which allows companies to make better proposals faster to win more business.

Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses.

And I noticed something over the years, which is that many people who run consulting companies want to make the transition into selling software. And whenever you hear about a company that did it, it seems like it was like that. You already have the team, so they could code it. You already know how to design, so they could design it. It’s such an easy transition. And then when you try to do it yourself, you realize it’s really hard.

Maybe you think that you’re doing something wrong, but I think, in reality, it actually is harder than most people make it out to be, which is I wanted to have today’s guest on. He actually made the leap and he’s willing to say, “Hey, it wasn’t an overnight success. It didn’t just work. We didn’t just have the resources, and as a...

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