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Joel Spolsky

10/25/13

@ Y Combinator

We started selling Fog Bugs, our bug tracking software, and within the first few months, we were making around $5,000 a month, which was enough to sustain us.

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Joel Spolsky at Startup School 2012

@ Y Combinator

10/25/13

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Joel Spolsky

10/25/13

@ Y Combinator

It took us 10 years to build FogBugz into a respectable business because there are many competitors in the bug tracking space.

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Joel Spolsky

10/25/13

@ Y Combinator

At Fog Creek, we were always concerned about running out of money, which made us very careful in our business decisions.

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Loriana Sardar

04/28/25

@ EO

We currently have 20 paying customers and have generated about $200,000 in annual revenue, while raising a round of $1.5 million.

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Jessica Mah

03/13/14

@ Y Combinator

We realized we needed to charge businesses a few hundred dollars a month instead of just $20-$30 to make our business model viable.

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Hosain Rahman

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

We went from zero to seventy million in revenue in our first year after launching our product, which sold out in a few hours.

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Betsy Larkin

07/30/18

@ Y Combinator

We've raised over $300,000 on Kickstarter and in the first week of sales, we generated over $30,000 in revenue, making us profitable right out of the gate.

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Danielle Morrill

02/24/15

@ Y Combinator

We had a beautiful growth graph, but we realized we were running a business with only a 5% margin, which isn't sustainable for a software company.

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Y Combinator Cast

08/10/23

@ Y Combinator

We sold our service to one company for $250 a month, even before we had any code developed.

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Parker Conrad

01/11/25

@ Y Combinator

After exiting Y Combinator, we achieved $200,000 in revenue within six weeks, and by the end of the year, we reached about $1 million, showcasing our rapid growth trajectory.