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stillmotion
Misleading title. They only shared the numbers from yesterday.
jrsims
Well, they are financial numbers aren't they?
dcurtis
Misleading by omission.

Should be"releases financial numbers... for yesterday."

gibsonf1
Actually, only the new from yesterday - not the already signed up users.
alaskamiller
my random guesses for their revenue:

- basecamp: $550,000/yr

- signal vs noise (jobboard + deck): $200,000/yr

- backpack: existing + new customers = $100,000/yr

- highrise: $100,000/yr

- campfire / writeboard / ta-da list: $75,000/yr

- get real book: $75,000, span of its entire publication run

37s is at least a 1 mil a year company

stillmotion
I think Basecamp makes boat loads more than we realize. That's why they're so secretive about the numbers.
pius
Or quite the opposite.
blamfilter
I think you are off by a factor of 5-7x
pius
I think you're closer than Alaska is. A million dollars a year is nothing when you've got nine high-profile employees in Chicago. Jason Fried is good enough of a business person that he's not going to run a firm with dangerously low margins.
redorb
37signals / basically the google of the SAAS model.
martin
Isn't Google the Google of the SaaS model?
spolsky
if you're really determined to figure out their revenue, work your way backwards from their 9 employees. Most software companies take in $100,000-$200,000/yr per employee per year in top line revenue.
wisernow
Excellent point. My guess is that they could be a bit higher, up to 300K per employee (that would be a somewhat exceptional, I grant you). $300K estimate would give $2.7 million per year.