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Tom Benattar

March 31, 2021

In 2020, we bought out our investor's shares, we gave back €200K from a loan and I finally bought my co-founder's shares. What a year!

In our last article, we shared our crazy last year at PixelMe after raising $1.3M. Specifically, we explained why...

Startup Journey

Tom Benattar

March 31, 2021

From €1M raised to a Cease and Desist letter from Facebook and 5 Layoffs: the crazy last year at PixelMe.

Our last transparency article was in August 2019 😱 it seems it’s always easier to be transparent when everything is going great…As a quick reminder, in October 2018 we decided to raise €1M after 1 year bootstrapping. At the time our MRR was at $ 10K with a €4M+ pre-money valuation! So our investors got 22% of the company and each of us got 26%...

Startup Journey

Tom Benattar

June 18, 2020

How we got +5,000 signups in one week with our side project Adinbox.me

This the story on how we (the PixelMe team) launched a side project marketing during summer 19’ and why we decided to build a Saas product out of it 🙂 You might want to take a ☕️and some 🍿it’s going to be a bit long!

Startup Journey

Tom Benattar

August 13, 2019

From 200 to 400 paying customers & 6 months into our seed round! Welcome to the Startup Rollercoaster 🎢 😎

Really?? It’s already been 6 months? 😱😅Yes, it’s been more than 6 months since we’ve shared with you all the story behind our first round and why we decided to finally raise one. As you’ve probably understood by now, we do not have any rules when it comes to sharing our updates...

Startup Journey

Tom Benattar

December 19, 2018

Why we decided to raise $1.3M after 1 year bootstrapping and how everything happened

First, sorry we’ve been quite silent in the past months since our last update about Phishing and how we went from 10 to 200 paying customers.Being quiet doesn’t mean nothing happened for us and for PixelMe 😀

Startup Journey

Tom Benattar

July 30, 2018

The PixelMe backstory: how “phishing” almost killed our company 😱

Back in December 2017, PixelMe had been on the market for two months. Remember that we shared a bit about our journey on how we created PixelMe, had a successful Appsumo promotion, and grew to 200 monthly paying customers.

Startup Journey

Tom Benattar

April 11, 2018

How we went from 10 to 200 paying customers in less than 6 months 🎉

After sharing how we acquired our first 10 paying customers with our side project in our previous post, we wanted to update you on what we’ve been up to during the last four months with PixelMe.

Startup Journey

Tom Benattar

December 4, 2017

How we made $170,000 in 2 weeks with our side project: Our story of an unexpected Appsumo promotion

Shortly after launching our solitary landing page, we were contacted by Appsumo to run a 14-day deal for their community.

Startup Journey

Tom Benattar

October 31, 2017

From Bali to our first 10 paying customers 🎉

Last winter, Tom and I (Maxime) were spending our vacation in Ubud, Bali! When you think about Ubud, it’s the kind of place on earth where time stands still.

Startup Journey