A milestone
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Our little company just passed the million dollar mark in total gross sales of our software over the years since our very first sale of our commercial software. There were a few lean years, (our first month was 53.00 in sales, I still have a copy of the check on the wall framed :) ) to start and a couple in between but we've been ramping up quite abruptly the last few years; it's pretty cool thinking back on all the times I was wondering if we had made the right decision going into the software business on our own with limited experience. We could have been much higher but our attitude was to slowly grow a solid business within our own means and not get any financing, no outside capital at all and in return be beholden to no one and it's worked out very well in the long term. We started it as a side business to our networking and computer tech support contracting business, then I slowly moved to full time programming and support and about 2 years later no one was doing contracting work any more as it was all software related work.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
did you cash the check?
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did you cash the check?
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Our little company just passed the million dollar mark in total gross sales of our software over the years since our very first sale of our commercial software. There were a few lean years, (our first month was 53.00 in sales, I still have a copy of the check on the wall framed :) ) to start and a couple in between but we've been ramping up quite abruptly the last few years; it's pretty cool thinking back on all the times I was wondering if we had made the right decision going into the software business on our own with limited experience. We could have been much higher but our attitude was to slowly grow a solid business within our own means and not get any financing, no outside capital at all and in return be beholden to no one and it's worked out very well in the long term. We started it as a side business to our networking and computer tech support contracting business, then I slowly moved to full time programming and support and about 2 years later no one was doing contracting work any more as it was all software related work.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
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Our little company just passed the million dollar mark in total gross sales of our software over the years since our very first sale of our commercial software. There were a few lean years, (our first month was 53.00 in sales, I still have a copy of the check on the wall framed :) ) to start and a couple in between but we've been ramping up quite abruptly the last few years; it's pretty cool thinking back on all the times I was wondering if we had made the right decision going into the software business on our own with limited experience. We could have been much higher but our attitude was to slowly grow a solid business within our own means and not get any financing, no outside capital at all and in return be beholden to no one and it's worked out very well in the long term. We started it as a side business to our networking and computer tech support contracting business, then I slowly moved to full time programming and support and about 2 years later no one was doing contracting work any more as it was all software related work.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
Way to go, John. Must be fun to watch your baby grow up. :)
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Nice. And you didn't once credit it all to the wonders of .NET. ;)
But who is the king of all of these folks?
Or blame how long it took him to get to a million dollars on the evils of open source software. ;P
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Our little company just passed the million dollar mark in total gross sales of our software over the years since our very first sale of our commercial software. There were a few lean years, (our first month was 53.00 in sales, I still have a copy of the check on the wall framed :) ) to start and a couple in between but we've been ramping up quite abruptly the last few years; it's pretty cool thinking back on all the times I was wondering if we had made the right decision going into the software business on our own with limited experience. We could have been much higher but our attitude was to slowly grow a solid business within our own means and not get any financing, no outside capital at all and in return be beholden to no one and it's worked out very well in the long term. We started it as a side business to our networking and computer tech support contracting business, then I slowly moved to full time programming and support and about 2 years later no one was doing contracting work any more as it was all software related work.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
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Nice. And you didn't once credit it all to the wonders of .NET. ;)
But who is the king of all of these folks?
Actually to be 100% objective we would still be a few years away if we were still working in the c++ MFC version. After porting it to .net our sales went up considerably because we were finally able to get on a quicker release cycle with newer features more regularly.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
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Actually to be 100% objective we would still be a few years away if we were still working in the c++ MFC version. After porting it to .net our sales went up considerably because we were finally able to get on a quicker release cycle with newer features more regularly.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
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Our little company just passed the million dollar mark in total gross sales of our software over the years since our very first sale of our commercial software. There were a few lean years, (our first month was 53.00 in sales, I still have a copy of the check on the wall framed :) ) to start and a couple in between but we've been ramping up quite abruptly the last few years; it's pretty cool thinking back on all the times I was wondering if we had made the right decision going into the software business on our own with limited experience. We could have been much higher but our attitude was to slowly grow a solid business within our own means and not get any financing, no outside capital at all and in return be beholden to no one and it's worked out very well in the long term. We started it as a side business to our networking and computer tech support contracting business, then I slowly moved to full time programming and support and about 2 years later no one was doing contracting work any more as it was all software related work.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
John C wrote:
Our little company just passed the million dollar mark in total gross sales of our software
That's a great accomplishment; congratulations John. :-D
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Our little company just passed the million dollar mark in total gross sales of our software over the years since our very first sale of our commercial software. There were a few lean years, (our first month was 53.00 in sales, I still have a copy of the check on the wall framed :) ) to start and a couple in between but we've been ramping up quite abruptly the last few years; it's pretty cool thinking back on all the times I was wondering if we had made the right decision going into the software business on our own with limited experience. We could have been much higher but our attitude was to slowly grow a solid business within our own means and not get any financing, no outside capital at all and in return be beholden to no one and it's worked out very well in the long term. We started it as a side business to our networking and computer tech support contracting business, then I slowly moved to full time programming and support and about 2 years later no one was doing contracting work any more as it was all software related work.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
Congratulations! I'm beginning with it. My partner and I are building this application in our spare time. We already have some customers, so I'm working until late (I won't quit my job still) trying to finish it as early as possible. Let's see if I can follow your path! :beer:
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Our little company just passed the million dollar mark in total gross sales of our software over the years since our very first sale of our commercial software. There were a few lean years, (our first month was 53.00 in sales, I still have a copy of the check on the wall framed :) ) to start and a couple in between but we've been ramping up quite abruptly the last few years; it's pretty cool thinking back on all the times I was wondering if we had made the right decision going into the software business on our own with limited experience. We could have been much higher but our attitude was to slowly grow a solid business within our own means and not get any financing, no outside capital at all and in return be beholden to no one and it's worked out very well in the long term. We started it as a side business to our networking and computer tech support contracting business, then I slowly moved to full time programming and support and about 2 years later no one was doing contracting work any more as it was all software related work.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
Enjoy your first million! :beer:
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head. (Charles M Strauss)
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Our little company just passed the million dollar mark in total gross sales of our software over the years since our very first sale of our commercial software. There were a few lean years, (our first month was 53.00 in sales, I still have a copy of the check on the wall framed :) ) to start and a couple in between but we've been ramping up quite abruptly the last few years; it's pretty cool thinking back on all the times I was wondering if we had made the right decision going into the software business on our own with limited experience. We could have been much higher but our attitude was to slowly grow a solid business within our own means and not get any financing, no outside capital at all and in return be beholden to no one and it's worked out very well in the long term. We started it as a side business to our networking and computer tech support contracting business, then I slowly moved to full time programming and support and about 2 years later no one was doing contracting work any more as it was all software related work.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
Man thats great I hope the trend continues upward. Mike
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Our little company just passed the million dollar mark in total gross sales of our software over the years since our very first sale of our commercial software. There were a few lean years, (our first month was 53.00 in sales, I still have a copy of the check on the wall framed :) ) to start and a couple in between but we've been ramping up quite abruptly the last few years; it's pretty cool thinking back on all the times I was wondering if we had made the right decision going into the software business on our own with limited experience. We could have been much higher but our attitude was to slowly grow a solid business within our own means and not get any financing, no outside capital at all and in return be beholden to no one and it's worked out very well in the long term. We started it as a side business to our networking and computer tech support contracting business, then I slowly moved to full time programming and support and about 2 years later no one was doing contracting work any more as it was all software related work.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
Do you have a link to your company?
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Enjoy your first million! :beer:
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head. (Charles M Strauss)
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Do you have a link to your company?
Um..not to our company no, we only have sites for our products. You can find the one to our main product by searching for "Work order software" in google and picking the first listing at the top in the non paid for listings, the one that starts with "ay". I don't want to link to it directly here because I value my separation between my work and here where I can say what I want without the usual censoring I have to do on our work forums.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
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Our little company just passed the million dollar mark in total gross sales of our software over the years since our very first sale of our commercial software. There were a few lean years, (our first month was 53.00 in sales, I still have a copy of the check on the wall framed :) ) to start and a couple in between but we've been ramping up quite abruptly the last few years; it's pretty cool thinking back on all the times I was wondering if we had made the right decision going into the software business on our own with limited experience. We could have been much higher but our attitude was to slowly grow a solid business within our own means and not get any financing, no outside capital at all and in return be beholden to no one and it's worked out very well in the long term. We started it as a side business to our networking and computer tech support contracting business, then I slowly moved to full time programming and support and about 2 years later no one was doing contracting work any more as it was all software related work.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
Awesome, congratulations.
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Enjoy your first million
I wish! The amount that trickles down to me is just enough to make house payments, buy groceries and slowly get out of credit card debt. It's picking up though.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
It reminds me on one very popular sentence in my country.
Just don't ask me about the first million, everything else is legal!
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head. (Charles M Strauss)
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Our little company just passed the million dollar mark in total gross sales of our software over the years since our very first sale of our commercial software. There were a few lean years, (our first month was 53.00 in sales, I still have a copy of the check on the wall framed :) ) to start and a couple in between but we've been ramping up quite abruptly the last few years; it's pretty cool thinking back on all the times I was wondering if we had made the right decision going into the software business on our own with limited experience. We could have been much higher but our attitude was to slowly grow a solid business within our own means and not get any financing, no outside capital at all and in return be beholden to no one and it's worked out very well in the long term. We started it as a side business to our networking and computer tech support contracting business, then I slowly moved to full time programming and support and about 2 years later no one was doing contracting work any more as it was all software related work.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
That is just about the coolest thing I've heard in a while. Thanks for the chear up. I kind of needed something like that. Congratulations!!!:rose:
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Our little company just passed the million dollar mark in total gross sales of our software over the years since our very first sale of our commercial software. There were a few lean years, (our first month was 53.00 in sales, I still have a copy of the check on the wall framed :) ) to start and a couple in between but we've been ramping up quite abruptly the last few years; it's pretty cool thinking back on all the times I was wondering if we had made the right decision going into the software business on our own with limited experience. We could have been much higher but our attitude was to slowly grow a solid business within our own means and not get any financing, no outside capital at all and in return be beholden to no one and it's worked out very well in the long term. We started it as a side business to our networking and computer tech support contracting business, then I slowly moved to full time programming and support and about 2 years later no one was doing contracting work any more as it was all software related work.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
Much congratulations John. This is truly an inspiration. I run my own company too and I still remember the first sale. Can you shed some light on your experience running the business without outside capital ? Did you take any credit from banks ? How about overdraft as a temporary source of financing ? It would be quite safe if you had committed customers, wouldnt it ? We are struggling with this issue ourselves. I tried the consulting route, but the consequences were bad. The gig sucked too much time out of the main product, and before we knew it three months had passed without much action on the product. Unfortunately, financing is hard in India due to lack of overdraft support from banks and lukewarm interest from VCs towards non-social-networking startups.
