Other interesting options:<p>* Yes - and we're making more than we would working elsewhere.<p>* Yes - and it's at least "ramen profitable" and more or less self-sustaining.<p>* Yes, but not enough to live on just yet.
Not exactly a startup: our project [1] is making some revenue, but is far from profitable (edit: which is kind of on purpose, but that's a story for another time)<p>[1] <a href="http://freelancersticker.com" rel="nofollow">http://freelancersticker.com</a>
Not sure if it'd count (not really a startup) but could live on it in <i>India</i>.<p><a href="http://thehorcrux.com/" rel="nofollow">http://thehorcrux.com/</a><p>That makes me think, coders in India have an edge when it comes to quitting their outsourced job. Being ramen profitable (or idly profitable?) is actually quite easy compared to the first world counterparts.<p>Call it reverse geo-arbitrage?
Profit is funny for the startup scene. When first starting out building my company, my co-founder and I were often focused heavily on "profit" when talking to VC's and pitching.<p>At a demo day we had a meeting with a partner from a big fund and pitched him. He turned us down and told us why but was kind enough to have a follow-on meeting with us to talk further about our pitching strategy and general business strategy.<p>One of the key points I got out of speaking with him was this: VC's (institutional, not necessarily angels) generally want to see high-growth and not high-profit. If you've got revenue coming in and you're "profitable" on it, then you need to be growing more (spending it). To the point that most VC's believe you should grow so fast that you never reach profitability until you exit OR decide to "level out" the business.
Yep! (I feel proud and lucky to say that)<p>Bootstrapped on $60 in Adwords by my business partner when he was selling a finance spreadsheet in college. :)<p><a href="http://www.youneedabudget.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.youneedabudget.com</a>
It's hard to believe that poll isn't heavily biased towares "yes". Looking at the results it's almost as if over 1/3 of startups are profitable which is pretty far from the stats I have seen before.
I was lead tech (and first hire) at a hardware startup which launched two unsuccessful products then ran out of money (despite some seed funding).
After that I left.<p>Revenue and margins yes, but far from break-even.
Yes. Quadrupled revenue over the last few months and are now 6 full-time people. Primarily bootstrapped apart from TechStars.<p><a href="http://drifty.com/" rel="nofollow">http://drifty.com/</a>
Forgive me, for I am ignorant. Why do some many of you not even get revenue?<p>Is the aim to build a userbase before monetizing the site (or flipping it)?