August Monthly Gathering

Billables wise, the past month was the poorest month of the year, with only 46k€ of billables of the 72k€ goal we traced. This is mostly because of a few projects ending, and because of we have only acquired one project that fits the profile of what we want to be developing from now on.

This is not good and we should not be happy with it.

Again, the biggest bottleneck sits in the type of projects we have been able to acquire this last trimester: we acquired 5 projects, but only one above the 20k€ value. We have some promising leads in the pipeline, but we’ve not been able to close them yet.

In terms of the number of projects, we haven’t reached the goal of 14 projects (8 closed). That’s because we acquired some new projects and are still closing others.

We have added new indicators for the goals, more focused on each tribe (Consulting and Hustle).

Billables are now the main indicator for Consulting, so everyone will be focused on that metric each month:

• July: 46k€
• August: 56K€ projected, we think we can achieve > 61K€

Consulting goals for September and onwards will be updated and validated with project ambassadors, but we’ll be pushing them and hustling to ensure all months from September on out are above 70K€.

Our 3 months average cash-burn is at 56K€/month.

Hustle goals have also been updated for the 3rd trimester to reflect these new changes:

• 16 qualified deals until the end of Quarter: Divided between high paid work (cash) and product sales (product & strategy).
• Make 2 product sales (where we have an active role on the non-technical side).
• Validate product sales in PT, double down in London by September.

We will keep in search mode for a reliable and recurrent source of qualified leads, that can on one side challenge our technical skills but also give us good money to keep investing in our products.

This is hard, but we believe it is a matter of time and work until we make the jump. As we have all seen during these last weeks, we have the right people to do it!
We will be focused on getting 2 qualified leads a week.

As you may have seen in our previews blog post, we are changing our product development to a 6-week product cycle framework. Learn a bit more about the projects before this first cycle ends.

DigitalBird

As a digital nomad traveling solo (or not) you always try to find online a place to sleep, work, eat and things to do. However, most of the time this is difficult to find or you just get tourist things that don't show you the truth of local. Digital Bird provides you everything you need to prosper as digital nomad where you experiment the best of what the city has to offer curated or provide by locals for a fixed amount per day. Right now we are looking for our first digital nomads who would like to use our product.
Digital Bird's landing page

Betterdesign

After finding an opportunity to co-found a newly found website (BetterDesign), aiming to solve the same questions as a Whitesmith's investment-time project did (image-grid), we talked to the owner. Since BetterDesign already addresses the issue image-grid was trying to solve (the problem regarding the easy, errorless comparison/sharing of images). Although we collaborated with betterdesign's team we will not give continuity to the project.
Better Design's website

TickTap

TickTap is an app for musicians and music lovers to train their rhythm, while also having fun. Built with React Native, we have almost finished the app and are giving it the last front-end touches.
TickTap's demo

TeamedIn

Teams usually are more efficient than a single person. Gathering elements that function perfectly as a team can be a very time-consuming task and usually exhaust human resources. Our goal was to make this process effortless! How? Teamedin is a social network that gathers the best product teams and recruiters, hence connecting people and companies. Contrary to other platforms, Teamedin isn’t focusing on matchmaking, we focus on providing teams and startups with the best, pragmatic way to meet new talents and ideas.

What do you think? Don't forget to check out each link and give us some feedback.

We still have a lot of blog posts in progress that wasn't launched, so we didn't reach our goals in this matter.

Also, we are trying different approaches to attract clients, and since we are not counting the contacts that come from old/current clients, our inbound strategy has been slower.

The results for July were:

• 4/6 blog posts
• 0/2 inbound contacts

Goals for August:

• 6 blog posts
• 3 inbound contacts

During August, we will invest more in our inbound strategy and we will also start working in our meet up in a new city! Watch out for updates on our social media.