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Startup Death Clock
- g0atbutt 16y agoP.S. Little easter egg - Watch the clock as you plug in your numbers.
- kingsidharth 16y agoo.O It says ours is dead "Now?" hah. nope money ain't the only factor.
- iM8t 16y agoIf you type in enough 9's in the "cash on hand" slot, the "middle box" will get out of bounds. Should add some JS to make the fonts a bit smaller when there are too much symbols in the row ;)
- g0atbutt 16y agoI noticed this too but I figured if you have enough "9's" in the bank, you probably don't need to use a Startup Death Clock :)
- Jacquass12321 16y agoI just amused myself by figuring out when rounding would kick in, I set the delta of cash in and cash out to 100 and put in 99.99 then just began appending 9's to the end until it switched from 'now' to 'one month' never has .000000000000009$ mattered so much.
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- zspade 16y agoIf only it were this simple.
- dpcan 16y agoPlease elaborate. If you aren't making enough money to cover your expenses, and you have no cash on hand, how are you still in business?
- leftnode 16y agoBecause if you spend $100 a month and make $200 a month, you're profitable, but by no means living off that money (at least in the US).
- reitzensteinm 16y agoSure, but if you absolutely need to take a salary, why not just include that in the expenses?
- dpcan 16y agoSince when is paying yourself and your employees not an expense that factors into whether or not you are profitable?
- elbrodeur 16y agoWe have a death clock on our company dashboard. Cash on hand/burn rate/revenue are updated a couple of times a month manually. We have yet to figure out a way to get the data programmatically.
- buro9 16y agoWhat do you use for accounting? If you use something like Xero.com then you can use their API to poll for the data whenever you want (though likely daily unless you're also performing reconciliation via the API).
- jedsmith 16y agoIf you accidentally mouse down on the page and begin selecting things (I do this habitually), Chrome will begin scrolling right, and then you're unable to scroll back without doing the same in the inverse. Weird.
- vtail 16y agoTry entering anything with monthly revenue >= monthly expenses.
- shareme 16y agodead in 1 years? Is that Julia Allison grammar?
- ashleyw 16y agoFixed :)
- katieben 16y agoHaha this is hilarious! Reminds me of the death clock that was so popular forever ago - oh man, it's still alive and kicking! http://www.deathclock.com/ http://www.deathclock.com/. Wonder how much that guy made all these years.
- Keyframe 16y agoThis doesn't work for me in any browser at all.. clock just spins around and message says: is your startup 37signals? Or I have missed the joke.
- fabiandesimone 16y ago$2000 in revenue a month and I'm 37 signals? I'm flattered :)
- xbryanx 16y agoI'm working on a death clock right now. It's called the yearly budget for our non-profit grant funded project.
- laaph 16y agoLast time there was noise about startup death clocks (let me find the link to the last discussion later), I thought it was a good idea but not at all what I wanted. What I wanted was to be able to plug in the actual income/outgoing for individual months/days and be able to see when the trend lines change, or choose which time frames to calculate over, and not just to determine "when will I run out of money?" but also "when will I become rich?" using the trend of the last month, six months, year, total, what have you. Not only that, but early in a startup, in/out costs can be highly variable month to month. So I implemented some basic java scripts to record and update incoming and outgoing transactions and I realized as I was starting to put data in, that I would much rather not input all transactions but just get the data from my bank. Then I realized that this would be much better as a plugin for a ledger/budget balancer program, or for something like mint.com. And I kind of abandoned progress on it there, as I don't use mint, and I started looking at various programs to help me track money but realized that keeping a spreadsheet of "money at start of month, money at end of month", still works fine for me, and with some macros I can determine what I want to know. So... for some one who does use these programs, would a plugin (or just a script on exported data) be worth it? Should I learn to use mint or gnucash or whatever for this?
- chime 16y agoI posted my app here last week and lots of people liked it: https://zetabee.com/cashflow/ https://zetabee.com/cashflow/ - I use it for my personal expenses but you should be able to use it for a small business.
- jacques_chester 16y agoNeato. Feature suggestion: add a waterfall chart. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_chart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_chart
- fairlyodd 16y agoMeh. All I get is "37Signals?".
- 27182818284 16y agoYeah I don't really follow either. if(revenue >= expenses && expenses != ''){ $("#time").html("<span class=\"white\">37</span>signals");
- ludwig 16y agoThis might explain it for you: http://www.quora.com/Is-37signals-a-lifestyle-company-Why http://www.quora.com/Is-37signals-a-lifestyle-company-Why
- mikiem 16y agoOooooooh! I get it now. According to this death-clock, my larger than small but smaller than medium company that is making very good money is a lifestyle company, like 37signals is. Actually, that's true! But do me a favor, don't tell anyone that. Please don't tell my hard-working and talented employees, for whom I am very grateful. Please don't tell my friends and siblings or my vendors. Let's just keep this between you and I. Thanks!
- Jabbles 16y agoPlease don't superscript the "1/2".
- beck5 16y ago200 revenue, 200 expense, 5 in bank == 37 signals?
- MattGrommes 16y agoIs this an ad for 37Signals? They're the only startup with revenue exceeding expenses? I don't get it.
- doctororange 16y agoWe've been using a similar death clock in a spreadsheet, but it calculates the date that we go broke. Nothing to fire you up like impending doom! Not sure why a break even company == 37signals though...
- blantonl 16y agoIs this another sign that we are entering a Web 2.0 bubble? You bet it is! 37 signals is sending an awesome message to the community; one that emphasizes that you don't need millions of funding and that net income is your #1 objective as a business owner. Make more money then you spend. End of story. I love the message.
- mkramlich 16y agoColor.com revenue: 0 expenses: $100k/mo (who knows, but let's err on high side) cash: $41m dead in: 34 years nothing at all wrong with their raise. nothing at all.
- po 16y ago$100k/mo is high? They have 7 founders and a 400k domain name.. I bet they burn more than that. Edited: I should add that yes, 100k/mo is high for a normal startup. :-)
- DarkShikari 16y agoApparently since we're earning money, we're 37signals.