From Losing Money to a 51% Profit Margin in 5 Months

In this article Nathan Barry explains how he took his email marketing software business, ConvertKit, from a lack of profitability to having 51% profit margins in just 5 months.

How We Grew Our SAAS Startup’s MRR from 0 to over $2k in Under One Month

In this article Rivalfox co-founder Kalie Moore explains how the company grew to $2,000 in MRR in just one month by blogging, growing an email list, and getting feedback from early users to improve the product.

5 Lessons Learned Taking A Software Business From 0 – $5k MRR

In this article NinjaOutreach co-founder and CEO Dave Schneider explains how improving the product allowed the company to grow to $5,000 in MRR.

GE 88: How One Month Rails Founder Mattan Griffel Quickly Expanded His Business to $75,000 MRR

In this podcast episode One Month Co-founder and CEO Mattan Griffel explains how he got the idea for the company and how he and his teammates have grown the business to $75,000 in MRR.

Trello Annual Sales, User Base And Other Stats

In this article Trello’s annual user and revenue stats from May, 2016 are available for anyone to see. In May, 2016 Trello had 1,000,000+ daily active users and ARR of $10,000,000+.

The 2 Biggest Mistakes I Made (Before Reaching $500 MRR)

In this article WiseCash founder Thibaut Barrere discusses how he grew his product to $500 in MRR despite making two huge mistakes with the business.

Lessons Learned Growing our Startup to $50,000 in Monthly Revenue

In this article Groove founder and CEO Alex Turnbull talks about how he and his teammates grew the company to $50,000 in MRR with content marketing, improving the customer UX, and other tactic and strategy changes.

Our first $1k in revenue

In this article Bliss founder Brian York discusses how maintaining an active Twitter presence, sending personalized emails to new signups, and using content marketing on Medium helped the company get to $1,000 in MRR>

How Close.io Closed $585 in Monthly Revenue from 1 Tweet

In this article Close.io Co-founder and CEO Steli Efti talks about how reading and responding to one Tweet led to $585 in new MRR for the company.

$0 to $1k MRR in 57 months

In this article Corrello founder Robin Warren talks about how he grew his software product to $1,000 in MRR over the course of 57 months. Building an online business can be a lot harder than anyone would like to admit.

From Zero to $3k MRR in 10 days — the story of launching RubySteps

In this podcast episode RubySteps founder Pat Maddox discusses how he went from not having enough money to pay his rent to creating a product that generated $3,000 in MRR and 1,000 new email subscribers in just 10 days.

Welcoming Brad Feld to the Mattermark Team — Announcing Mattermark’s $6.5M Series A

In this article Mattermark co-founder and CEO Danielle Morrill talks about how the company grew to $200,000 in MRR along the way to raising a $6,500,000 Series A round of funding.

How My Startup Dropped From $100K to $0 Overnight

In this article Saleem J. Yaqub, Founder of guest blog network PostJoint.com, talks about how being penalized by Google caused his company’s sales to drop to $0 and the mistakes in his business he should have fixed before the penalty.

Candy Japan crosses $10000 MRR

In this article Candy Japan Founder Bemmu Sepponen discusses how he grew the subscription candy company to $10,000 in MRR and the challenges of running his business.

Growing From $5,000 to $25,000 in MRR

In this article StatusPage co-founder Danny Olinsky talks about how the company grew from $5,000 in MRR to $25,000 in MRR by using public integrations, increasing in-app referrals, and more.

How TellApart’s Founder Grew Revenue From $7 Million to $100 Million

In this article TellApart CEO Josh McFarland tells Greylock Partners how he and his executives grew the company from $7,000,000 to $100,000,000 in sales before the company got acquired by Twitter.

Story of building startup sales that earned $80k last month

In this article RightHello director of sales Bartosz Majewski grew the company’s sales to $80,000 in MRR by hiring the right people and improving the sales process.

Moz’s $18 Million Venture Financing: Our Story, Metrics and Future

In this article Moz co-founder Rand Fishkin discusses how Moz grew to a $19,000,000 revenue run rate and how they raised $18,000,000 in funding.

The Startup Marketing Strategy Used to Get iDoneThis to $500k in Recurring Revenue

In this podcast episode iDoneThis Co-founder and CEO Walter Chen talks about how the company grew to $500,000 in ARR, how the company bootstrapped its first 1,000 users with Hacker News, and more.

How One Startup Grew From Zero to $100K in Monthly Revenue In Only 11 Months

In this article Alex Turnbull of Groove discusses how Edgar founder and CEO Laura Roeder grew her social media SaaS app to $100,000 in MRR in just 11 months by using her existing audience.

Monthly Revenue Breakdown of PlentyOfFish’s Early Days

In this article PlentyOfFish founder Markus Frind breaks down the $900,000+ per month revenue PlentyOfFish generated in the early days of its existence.

Cutting churn: How Colin of Customer.io kept churn low and took ARR to $1 million

In this interview Customer.io Co-founder and CEO Colin Nederkoorn discusses how he and his teammates grew Customer.io to $1,000,000 in ARR by focusing on cutting the product’s churn rate.

How we got from $0 to $75,000 MRR with zero marketing budget

In this article Scentbird co-founder Sergei Gusev discusses how he and his team grew Scentbird to $75,000 with no marketing budget by using influencer marketing.

My Startup Made 200k In Its First Two Months…And I’m Embarrassed

In this article author and Book in a Box Co-founder and CEO Tucker Max talks about how his company made $200,000 in its first two months and his embarrassment of not starting the company sooner.

How Two Non-Technical Cofounders Grew & Sold Their Startup for Millions

In this article a former co-founder of Caskers (an alcohol ecommerce company) talks about he and his other nontechnical co-founder built and sold the company for millions of dollars.

Lessons Learned Growing a Startup From Zero to $100k/month in 2 Years

In this article Groove Co-founder and CEO Alex Turnbull discusses how he and his teammates at Groove grew the company to more than $1,000,000 in fewer than two years of operation.

A Bootstrapped Startup’s Journey to $80,000 in Monthly Revenue

In this article Orchestra founder Teren Teh discusses how he bootstrapped his software company to $80,000 in MRR after previously running a failed venture-backed startup.