Remember how, a few months back, I went to part-time status at work so that I could try a start-up with my friend Patrick? You may be wondering how that's going, and I am here with a status report. We're still being kinda secretive, and our work isn't quite ready for public consumption, but know this: it's a website and we're making our money off of advertising.
The most exciting news here is that... we've made a dollar. We didn't make any money at all in 2007 and we've already made $1.70 in January alone. That's roughly an infinite percent increase in revenue, and last time I checked, that's pretty good. According to my numbers, that one month increase of infinite percent ties for the largest percentage increase ever in the history of business. Yeah! Google, you have been warned!
Since we're making money off of ads, we tend to make tiny amounts of money each day. This led Patrick to remark that it's going to be a lot harder for us to frame our first dollar if it's composed entirely of change. Apparently Patrick has never heard of crazy glue.
The cool thing is, we're making progress. Each week, we manage to add a few more features, which is particularly impressive considering we're the two laziest bastards in the world. Hopefully in a week or two, we'll be ready to point lots of folks to our work. Internet, start thirsting for content!
(If you're really, really intrigued, just send me an email and I'll point you to the URL. I just don't want to do the big announcement yet.)
Posted by Cody at January 28, 2008 7:44 PM