{"id":109039,"date":"2026-06-27T10:27:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/3-founders-skipped-vc-funding-used-ai-to-stay-lean-and-got-to-1-million-in-revenue-in-year-one\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T10:27:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:27:49","slug":"3-founders-skipped-vc-funding-used-ai-to-stay-lean-and-got-to-1-million-in-revenue-in-year-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/3-founders-skipped-vc-funding-used-ai-to-stay-lean-and-got-to-1-million-in-revenue-in-year-one\/","title":{"rendered":"3 founders skipped VC funding used AI to stay lean and got to $1 million in revenue in year one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Outward Intelligence cofounders, from left to right: Amir Kanpurwala, Brian Tatum, and Abhish Raghavan. Kanpurwala and Raghavan.Courtesy of Outward Intelligence<br \/>\nOutward Intelligence foun\u2026 [+5834 ch<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-outward-intelligence-founders-bootstrapped-seven-figure-revenue-2026-6#article\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Outward Intelligence cofounders, from left to right: Amir Kanpurwala, Brian Tatum, and Abhish Raghavan. Kanpurwala and Raghavan.Courtesy of Outward Intelligence Outward Intelligence foun\u2026 [+5834 chread more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":["1"]},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-make-money"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}