How a Mixergy listener built SocialBee

Ovi Negrean, SocialBee, B2B, Bootstrapping, European Founder, International Founders, Mixergy Fan, Social Media

I’m not going to pretend that I’m impartial in this interview. I really love today’s guest and I’ve known him for a long time because he’s a part of the Mixergy community. I even remember when he was thinking through the idea for today’s startup.

Wait until you hear how simply and effectively he built this thing. I love how much he’s grown his company up. And I just like him as a person. I got to know him here when we flew him out to San Francisco and the two of us spent the day in Napa just talking through stuff.

Ovi Negrean is a co-founder of SocialBee.io which offers social media management tools, training and teams.

I’ve watched SocialBee grow and I’m looking forward to finding out the details behind the scenes of how he did it. If you’re at all a bootstrapper or a hustler or somebody who wants to build a company while you’re working somewhere else, this is the interview for you.

Ovi Negrean

SocialBee

Ovi Negrean is a co-founder of SocialBee.io which offers social media management tools, training and teams.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. And I’m not going to pretend that I’m impartial in this interview. I really love today’s guest. I’ve known him for a long time because he’s a part of the Mixergy community. I remember when he was thinking through the idea for today’s startup. And I remember that like it’s not an MVP, it’s like a fully working version that was built in the most like Zapier-like way. We’ll talk about that.

If you’re at all thinking about creating a software company and you say, “I don’t think I should code yet. I don’t know how to code. Should I? How much time should I invest?” wait until you hear how simply and effectively he built this thing. It wasn’t like a simple thing that had no substance. It was built on a bunch of software...

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