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#269 – Bouncing Back from Failure to Bootstrap Past $2M/Year with Josh Ho of Referral Rock

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What's Going Through Your Mind at This Point?

I think I actually decided to not even build a database because I was tired of like building full schemas and then never really getting them off the ground so I literally literally used an XML resource file as my quote unquote database for the first 20 customers or 20, 20 pilot users. So that was it there was no retention of saving customer date or anything that was just like a way to templatize from an old code version That got me out the ground to have to see if I can get, you know, 10, 10 people to put up a referral program site. No one was doing it that they could talk to CRM's about making it simple enough for a small business

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