Comments on: How Wildbit Builds Multi-Million Dollar Products Working 40 Hours/Week

By: Alex Chaidaroglou

Alex Chaidaroglou — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 12:10:44 +0000

Great post, thanks Natalie and Alex.

Natali, regarding the offices, how are the private offices structured? Perhaps 1 room, 2 desks and 2 employees per room? How did this impact your financials?

Also, what do you think offices can offer that being solely remote can’t?

Thanks in advance!

By: ericnicolaas

ericnicolaas — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 02:41:32 +0000

Thanks Natalie & Alex for this post. Ton of useful insight here.

I have one question for you Natalie. You mentioned that you did not have anybody in marketing until recently. In retrospect, do you think you should have hired a marketing person sooner? If so, how early do you think you should have hired someone for that?

Cheers,
Eric

[Alex note: thanks for the heads up about the typo, fixed :)]

By: James McBryan

James McBryan — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 21:43:29 +0000

So it sounds like though Newsberry was generating $75k in profit however that profit was decreasing not growing because of the competition, correct? Lets say theoretically, If instead of going down it was slowly going up, would you still have pulled the plug or would you still have shut it down? It sounds like it would be an asset and not liability and $75k profit is enough for someone’s salary.

And what was “pulling the plug” for you? Did you sell the list of individuals or literally just shut it down?

By: Hazel Whicher

Hazel Whicher — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 19:57:07 +0000

Thanks Alex! Hi Natalie!
This post is extremely relevant for me at the moment as I’m just about to leave my day job and join our business full time as a co-founder with my partner.

Your comments about how you split out the work and decisions are very interesting – I think it’s something that we need to try.

I wondered, who do your employees report to? Do they report to you both? Or is there a clear divide that follows through to the teams in terms of backend / front of house? Do you feel that you specifically can’t ask anyone to do anything product related if that’s Chris’s area of focus?
Finally, what do you do when you and Chris disagree on a business decision? How do you resolve it?

That’s definitely my quota of questions! Feel free to pick one if all are too time-consuming!

Hazel

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:25:38 +0000

Thanks Alex and hi Natalie, congrats on your success. We are also a dev agency, much like Wildbit and we are desperate to build our own products. We have even built a few, but have simply never gotten round to marketing them, growing etc. the problem is that we never have “time” to build our own stuff, somehow there is always something else more important, yet I can’t think of anything more important than securing our future…how did your team get around this challenge?

Thanks
Grant

By: Ryan Angilly

Ryan Angilly — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 15:40:12 +0000

The timing of this post is awesome. We recently set about to build a new weekly email for Ramen customers. Our vision was to make an email that was very engaging and data-driven with lots of visuals. We were shocked at the lack of a good solution for getting image charts into emails. We built something internally, and then it hit us: other people would love this.

And on Tuesday we launched https://ChartURL.com 🙂

It’s already had over 100 signups and 10 credit cards swiped. Not bad for a little side project at all!

Love this post so much. Gives me so much to think about moving forward with ChartURL in the coming months.

Thanks Alex and Natalie!