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1. hellow+1q2[view] [source] 2022-06-03 13:51:47
>>RBBron+(OP)
>There was no opportunity to raise additional funding, so I began injecting my own money into the company—money I barely have—just to keep the lights on.

Honestly curious: If your company managed to become profitable and has been operating since 2016, how were you not able to generate enough business or personal income to sustain the company further from the point you describe above? I'm sorry if it's an invasive question, but to me the idea of running a profitable business for several years and that still not being enough to have earned a decent life/business cushion is seriously demotivating for entrepreneurship effort.

Edit: sorry to hear about the closure too. Your service seems like a genuinely wonderful thing, and especially in a country like the U.S, with often grotesquely punitive attitudes towards people with criminal records.

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2. RBBron+NS2[view] [source] 2022-06-03 15:55:21
>>hellow+1q2
Ironically, we only achieved operational profitability in Feb 2020 (one month before we were walloped by the pandemic)
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