Hi everyone,… I know, I know! Where the heck have I been? Working! I’ve been working, I tell you the truth. :p
Now seriously, I am soooo ashamed for not posting any updates lately but I have a good excuse: I’ve been working so hard for really taking FlairBuilder to a new level. Exciting things to be revealed soon!
It’s been 3 months already and judging from the perspective of a one-man humble show, living-room based start-up, I have been doing great from my first month. Just the other day, I marked my 100th license sold. Yeah, that means $10.000. 
Or close… There are some fees that go to my online payments processor, but I still get about $9.400, which is quite OK.
Actually, if I think twice, the sales really started rolling around 20th of May, following the great feedback (about this in a later post) I got from the awesome people on The Business of Software forum. So, I still got a bout 10 days to make $10k net income. 
I’ve been thinking once in while about how I’m doing from a financial perspective. Looking back to some other success stories, where others have made 10 times this amount of cash in the same period, one would say that things could have been better. With a better idea? With a better marketing strategy? Probably, I guess. On the other hand, I think about the current economical context, I think/wonder about how most of the small 1-man start-ups are doing? I’ve been told that usually businesses start with a period of no-profit. For me, the pass from an employee to a independent software vendor (ISV) was basically seamless. My first $2k were made in the last 10 days of May. Afterwards, things have settled to a constant pace of about $3k/month.
The bottom line here is that I haven’t started this business to get rich (although I wouldn’t mind if I will… ), I started it because I had to. I felt it my fingers, I felt it my toes. I’ve been working on this project for almost one year before quiting my job, and most of that time I had no perspective of starting a business. Many years before this project I also done lots of stuff in my extra time (this asks for another post, though).
In the past 4 months of being on my own I worked more, I had more fun and earned more money than I used to as full-time employee. My life has changed a lot in a short period of time (isn’t this a $100k worth thing already?) and I’m sure there are still lots of exciting things yet to come. Most of which depend on me making them happen.
Unknown, here I come!
