Facebook Gave His Company Hyper-Growth--and Then Killed It Just as Fast
The major tech platforms have the power to make and break the startups that rely on them. Just ask Joe Speiser and the former staff of LittleThings.
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The major tech platforms have the power to make and break the startups that rely on them. Just ask Joe Speiser and the former staff of LittleThings.
If you haven't already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Joe Speiser, Founder and CEO of LittleThings bootstrapped his first digital media/ad network business to $50 million in revenue and then sold it to private equity. Later he started a second business, an e-commerce company, that he bootstrapped for a year and then raised venture capital. His third business, LittleThings, is a spin-off within the second business that took him back to his digital media roots. Since our conversation in 2015, LittleThings was acquired by RockYou Media, an enterta...
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Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Photo by Liu Jie/Xinhua via Getty LittleThings founder Joe Speiser said this week that he lost $100 million thanks to