MixRank: A Hacker News Comment Leads To Profitable Y Combinator Startup – with Ilya Lichtenstein

Ilya Lichtenstein, MixRank, B2B, Customer Acquisition, Marketing, Scaling, System, Traffic

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How did MixRank turn a profit on its first day and grow to 3,500 users within 3 months?

Ilya Lichtenstein is the cofounder of the Y Combinator-backed MixRank, which reveals your competitors’ ad campaigns, showing you exactly what’s working for them.

Ilya Lichtenstein

MixRank

Ilya Lichtenstein is the cofounder of MixRank, which reveals competitors’ campaigns, showing you exactly what’s working for them.

 

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