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Ask YC: How much does your startup make per month?
11 points by mlLK on Dec 6, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
How much does your startup make per month? Also describe services rendered, and what phase your startup is in.

EDIT: Consider startup in the loosest terms; this could be any passive income streams as well.



Same story with the other forum I spend time on: everybody wants to hear the numbers. Nobody wants to share.

I sell a wee little software application as a sideline. I also publish sales stats and have since I started. You can find them all here:

http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month

Summary for terminally click-averse: first month (7/2006) was $25. Sales for 2008 are around $20k. My market has a funny business cycle so "per month" tracking conceals as much as it reveals, but October (best month, typically) was $2,450 and November (worst month, typically) was $1,700.

Services rendered: I sell something people want, where "people" are overwhelmingly elementary school teachers, "something" is a program that makes bingo cards, and "sell" means "transfer, in exchange for money".

Phase startup is in: we'll I'm sitting down with the VCs next week to discuss a Series B round to... no, just kidding. Next week I'll probably also be selling products to customers for money. Next year? I'm thinking selling products to customers for money.

Incidentally, organic sales growth + pending second application = eventually quit day job.




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