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Re:37signals Releases Backpack Financial Numbers by alaskamiller on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @02:20PM (#119905)
my random guesses for their revenue:

- basecamp: $550,000/yr

- signal vs noise (jobboard + deck): $200,000/yr

- backpack: existing + new customers = $100,000/yr

- highrise: $100,000/yr

- campfire / writeboard / ta-da list: $75,000/yr

- get real book: $75,000, span of its entire publication run

37s is at least a 1 mil a year company

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Re:37signals Releases Backpack Financial Numbers by stillmotion on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @03:10PM (#119950)
I think Basecamp makes boat loads more than we realize. That's why they're so secretive about the numbers.
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Re:37signals Releases Backpack Financial Numbers by pius on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @06:36PM (#120093)
Or quite the opposite.
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Re:37signals Releases Backpack Financial Numbers by blamfilter on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @06:43PM (#120099)
I think you are off by a factor of 5-7x
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Re:37signals Releases Backpack Financial Numbers by pius on Thursday February 21, 2008 @10:41AM (#120473)
I think you're closer than Alaska is. A million dollars a year is nothing when you've got nine high-profile employees in Chicago. Jason Fried is good enough of a business person that he's not going to run a firm with dangerously low margins.
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