Bootstrapping Pagemodo By Taking A Loan On His Parents’ House: – with Thomas Kjeldgaard
Thomas Kjeldgaard, Pagemodo, B2B, Bootstrapping, Customer Acquisition, European Founder, International Founders, Marketing, SaaS (software as a service), Sell Your Business, Social Media, System
Sometimes people ask me how I get these fantastic interviewees on Mixergy, so I’ll tell you how I met today’s guest.
I met him through an email that I got from a past Mixergy interviewee. Nathan Latka of Heyo, said to me, Hey, I wanted you to meet Thomas Kjeldgaard. He bootstrapped Pagemodo by taking a loan on his parents’ house, grew it to 80,000 users, and then sold it to webs.com after eight months.
He’s a really smart entrepreneur who’s now building SplashPost with no “real education”.
Thomas Kjeldgaard is the co-founder of Pagemodo, an online tools that enables small business owners to design their own custom Facebook pages for free and with ease.
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