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EarlyStageStartups.com is a job board for people who want to join a startup while it is still early. It lists open roles at pre-seed, seed and Series A companies, with salary transparency: every posting that lists a salary shows it, in the currency the company wrote it in. Job seekers can browse by category, location, and workplace, compare median pay, and read weekly reports. A free weekly email sends the newest opportunities.
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It was around 10,000 maybe each that we had to invest up front to get things off the ground but pretty much every month from inception to the acquisition we were around 50% EBITDA margins. And so we really tried to be lean.
$10K each in, ~50% EBITDA from inception to exit
Brett and Zack each chipped in ~$10K to start, then ran ~50% EBITDA margins every month from launch through the Quizlet acquisition. That financial discipline kept them cash-flow positive throughout — which gave them real optionality on the deal rather than negotiating from desperation.
the CPMs the cost per thousand views or generally the cost per view is almost four times as high on iOS than it is on Android So being bootstrapped and being capital constrained from day one we knew that we needed a solution
Target Android First to Cut User Acquisition Costs by Four Times
iOS advertising costs roughly four times more per impression than Android, yet Android users convert at nearly the same rate. For bootstrapped founders with limited capital, starting on Android can dramatically extend runway while still building a real subscriber base.
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