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Chad Wittman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
205 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

Yeah, so we built a Facebook analytics, kind of Facebook insights, and you know this better than anyone else,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

Facebook Insights at the time was absolutely terrible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

So we sat down to essentially build out a website and a web application that enabled us to go do this at scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

So sat down, started building it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

I think it took us about a month or two to actually build out kind of version one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

I had built the very, very, very smallest prototype, and that was starting to gain some steam, maybe 10,000 free users using the app kind of really regularly, some big brands.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

Took us about maybe two months to build out a kind of a professional version of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

We then launched it, uh, crossed our fingers, went to bed that night thinking that maybe what year was that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

What year was that when you launched?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

That would have been probably 2012, I believe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

I went to bed, wanted to see what happened to, you know, the next, uh, where we wake up with a lot of sales, not many sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

And I think we woke up to like five sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

So it was kind of like, okay, this could be really interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

At what price point?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

I think most of our plans sold at $30 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

Right, right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m

Yeah, and it was actually really fun because that next day we had a little setup where when the email would come in with the receipt of a sale, it would make a little cha-ching sound.