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Startup Journey

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%...

By Tom Benattar

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

Startup Journey

By Tom Benattar

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!

Startup Journey

By Tom Benattar

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

Startup Journey

By Tom Benattar

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

Startup Journey

By Tom Benattar

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

Startup Journey

By Tom Benattar

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

Startup Journey

By Tom Benattar

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

Startup Journey

By Tom Benattar

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

Startup Journey

By Tom Benattar

From Bali to our first 10 paying customers 🎉

Startup Journey

By Tom Benattar