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Hi everybody, here is Alex, the co-founder of Creative Tim. Hope the information from this interview will help you achieve more with your current business or give you the courage to start your own business.

If you have any suggestions or feedback I would be glad to talk with you.

Best, Alex

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Hi, Alex. Nice new material design templates and open sourcing them! It looks like the developer wrote their own code[1] to achieve the material design look and feel; will your team be using Google's Material Design Components in HTML/CSS/JS [2] in the future?

[1] https://github.com/creativetimofficial/material-dashboard

[2] https://github.com/google/material-design-lite

I came across your site a couple months ago and was really impressed with the design. I was also pleasantly surprised at just how permissive your licensing was.

I'm now happily using paper-dashboard for some internal admin areas. Thank you!

Hey Alex! Thanks for sharing about creative-tim!

You have an excellent business on your hands.

Thank you! Glad that you like it :D

Hi Alex,

Great work. I'm curious how did you get your affiliate programs in place, did you reach out to folks or did they reach out to you?

Thank you for the kind words! In the beginning, we started to talk with different bloggers or website owners that were sharing content for our audience, then with github repos' owners in order to get some of our affiliates, then we created a dedicated page on our website where we receive affiliates requests.

Hi Alex, thanks for sharing.

I was wondering, what you pay your affiliates is missing from the break down of costs. Why is that?

Glad that you like it! It is missing from the cost because we use a payment processor (Avangate) who is taking care of all our payments and also the affiliates commissions + European VAT and other taxes, what we have there in revenue is our net revenue after we pay all the VAT, affiliates and commissions of our payment vendor. So the Gross revenue is bigger than 17k/month, around 20-21k/month.

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