Transparent Startups

Discover startups with transparent revenue numbers

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Discover startups with transparent revenue numbers

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Interesting.I've always been keen to see what startups solving simple solutions are earning. It seems perfectly possible for a single developer to solve a simple solution and make a decent living from what I see.... How do you validate the data provided?

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10yr ago

Transparent Startups

Maker

@anesu_fitzgerald_muzenda Most of the startups featured on the site publish on their blog revenue or growth reports on a monthly basis. On the "INCOME REPORTS" table, just below the charts, you could see the link to their reports for each month. Recently I implemented an admin Metrics Form to allow founders to manage their own figures every month. I've seen many of them started to use it to add Septembers' numbers. Thanks for your feedback!

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10yr ago

No "stealth" numbers here - love this site and it's very valuable if you are doing financial models for or working in a start up. One question, how do you validate the numbers?

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10yr ago

Transparent Startups

Maker

@love2golf Hey Margaret! As mentioned in a previous comment, most of the startups publish monthly reports with nice details about their revenues and expenses. Obviously we cannot guarantee they're 100% correct but I don't believe any founder will spend their time in making up those numbers month by month. On another hand, the rest of the startups that are not publishing reports are however on Baremetrics' Open Startups, which I believe is totally validated. I guess it might be other mechanisms to validate these numbers. Any suggestions?

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10yr ago

ArtSquare

Awesome, but, where's this info coming from? Setting a new VC vetting standards by getting startups to volunteer accurate info, publicly, or sourcing otherwise for other purposes? Hope this takes hold, if it's the former! @rafapaez_

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10yr ago

Transparent Startups

Maker

@elizabethhunker Thanks Elizabeth! I've already answered (twice) your first question - please read the other comments ;). I don't have plans to set a new VC myself :D but you made me think...

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10yr ago

Owlie

👏 . Integrating with Crunchbase will make my day. Just having Buffer, Unbounce, and Mattermark covered on the website made it bookmark 📕 worthy!

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10yr ago

Transparent Startups

Maker

@ashutosh508 Yes! These companies are a role model in Transparency - loving their journeys!

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10yr ago

Transparent Startups

Maker

Hi everyone! I'm Rafa, the maker of Transparent Startups. I'm always looking for Startup inspiration and I love learning from entrepreneurs that managed to build a growing and profitable tech startup, especially from those that started them as a side project. I truly believe in business transparency and I usually spend a lot of my spare time researching about it. There are a lot of bloggers that openly publish monthly income reports and a few aggregators of them but I couldn't find a similar place for actual Tech Startups with SaaS products. For that reason, I built Transparent Startups: to collect these businesses and founders that are embracing Transparency by sharing everything with the world, including their revenue numbers and growth journeys so others can learn and be inspired. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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10yr ago

I'm very proud to be a part of one of these startups. This is a great way to highlight them and encourage others to follow their example!

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10yr ago

Transparent Startups

Maker

@ntdb I bet you are! I follow Rand's blog and it's very impressive the level of transparency you guys have at Moz.

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10yr ago

The Outsider: Invest in America

Your hockey stick projections can now be based in the revenue reality of today's firms! Fantastic information for both investors and startup entrepreneurs.

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10yr ago

Transparent Startups

Maker

@jamie_mci Thanks Jamie. I strongly believe that being transparent is good for everyone: customers, employees, founders, investors, etc. Glad to hear more people share the same values.

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10yr ago