I'm curious who is currently living off their startup? Self-sustaining or through funding? Also, if you are a link?
Who is living off their startup fulltime?
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#2I am. I don't know if I'm technically a startup; right now it's just me doing freelance iOS development, but it's paying the bills.
Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?
#3I am, but that's because our costs are incredibly low. I have a team of 3 with a monthly burn total of $1,000. We have our seed funding from i/o ventures. Company is called Skyara if you want to check it out.
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#4I am. I don't know if I'm technically a startup; right now it's just me doing freelance iOS development, but it's paying the bills.
It's awesome when anyone can make a living doing what they choose. But for practical purposes, I think most people think of "living off their start-up" as making money from things other than an individual doing contracts/hourly work; in other words, a product or service that can scale in some sense. If you were making money by paying others to do the work, that would be a different story!
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#5I am. I don't know if I'm technically a startup; right now it's just me doing freelance iOS development, but it's paying the bills.
we're hiring, shoot over details of your experience with iOS dev if you're interested. http://www.fiplab.com
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#6Forrst (http://forrst.com/) makes more than enough to cover all costs, including some of my salary. The rest comes from a seed round I took in March.
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#7ParkWhiz (http://www.parkwhiz.com) is fully bootstrapped and paying full-time salaries to both founders. It took us 3 years of being ramen-profitable to get to that point, though.
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#8ThatHigh.com pays my rent in SF.
Currently working on Djangy.com, hopefully that will "supplement" thathigh :-)
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#9I am, sort of. But it was a huge step back money-wise.
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#10scribophile.com is paying my salary right now. Not as much as working as a developer at a big company, but enough to live, and I'm much happier :)
Completely bootstrapped. The only cash I put down was $100 for some small graphic design work, $500 for an initial Adwords campaign, and $20 for a server.