Not in the Valley. Not funded. Not an overnight success. – with Joshua Baer

Joshua Baer, Capital Factory, Bootstrapping, Customer Acquisition, Hiring, Mental Game, Scaling, Sell Your Business

Joshua Baer isn’t in Silicon Valley — he prefers Austin. He didn’t take outside funding — his customers funded him. He wasn’t an overnight success — it took him 10 years. But he made it. And even though he used the word “fortunate” a lot to describe how he built a $10+ million from nothing, you’ll be inspired by all the hard work he put into his vision.

This is the story of how Joshua bootstrapped, grew and sold two email companies: SKYLIST, an email service provider, and UnsubCentral, an email compliance business.

Joshua is now working on Capital Factory, the startup accelerator company whose application deadline is almost here.

Joshua Baer

Capital Factory

Joshua Baer is the Managing Director at Capital Factory, an early stage accelerator program for tech startups.

 

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