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Madison Wickham

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
250 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

How, how big that business could become, um, was still kind of a question mark though.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

I mean,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

And, uh, interesting thing about that particular period in time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

Um, I was, uh, uh, my, I put in my two weeks notice at my job, my full-time job, 10 days after my first kid was born.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

So I had a 10 day old, uh, and I, I quit my job with, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

solid salary and stable benefits to dive full time, um, into, uh, into a frat blog that, you know, who knew where that was going to go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

So, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

But, you know, all the more motivation to figure out how to make it work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

It was, I want to say June 1st.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

I think it was October, towards the end of October is when we decided to dive in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

And I think August was our third month live.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

And I think August ended at about $2,000 in ad revenue and October was pacing to do even more than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

I think maybe double that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

In 2010, yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

So we, yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

So we were just looking at it and we were like, all right, this is, it's not just going to,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

It's not just going to fall off a cliff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

If anything, you know, we dive in and it slowly dies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

And, you know, we were we were wrong that it was that this thing would be sustainable long term.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham

We go back to square one and get normal jobs again.