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The 2009 TechCrunch Web App Survey Results
- Readmore 17y agoThe last few charts are the most telling. The majority of free sites reported $1-$5 in monthly revenue but the majority of subscription sites reported $1000-$5000 a month.
- jah 17y agoWhere's the option for subscription sites making < $1000 a month?
- stingraycharles 17y agoI was wondering about that too. Perhaps they all made more than $1000 a month ? I couldn't find out how many startups they surveyed, so it might as well be only 3 startups.
- coglethorpe 17y agoIs that revenue per user, or overall? My barely-maintained blog makes more than $5 a month in revenue. Maybe some are having a low or no ad site to start out?
- gcheong 17y agoLooks like they made a mistake on the intervals in #14. 20,000- 100,000 then 10,000 to 500,0000 and then over 50,000?
- javery 17y agoIt would be awesome if they released the data in some form, the interesting questions would be.. how successful are bootstrapped vs. funded? How successful are multi-founder vs. single-founder. How do these number change when you look at founding date, etc. I always hate when I see good data put into charts that basically tells you the least interesting part of the story.
- jrbedard 17y agoIt would be interesting, they should derive that data from Crunchbase.
- wayneyeager 17y agoDon't want to be a stats-nazi, but I wonder if 66 is an adequate sample size when respondants are self-selected (as opposed to random). (66 respondants can be deduced by finding the highest common denominator in all the response percentages. In this case the HCD is 1.51515. So 100/1.51515 = 66.)
- lbrandy 17y agoDon't want to be a stats-nazi, but no sample size is adequate when the respondents are self-selected :)
- bradgessler 17y agoIts really hard to decipher this data. Is there a list of companies that responded? That would help. There are also a few really bad typos (http://skitch.com/bradgessler/nbqen/re-the-2009-techcrunch-web-app-survey http://skitch.com/bradgessler/nbqen/re-the-2009-techcrunch-w...)
- mrshoe 17y agoLooks like a really small sample size, about half of which are bootstrapped startups with zero users. I'm not sure how useful this data is.
- Jim_Neath 17y agoI hate pie charts.
- uggedal 17y agoAmen. Especially 3D pie charts.
- chaosmachine 17y agoAnd compression artifacts. They used JPEG instead of PNG :\
- kjhughes 17y agoIt seems sloppily done: The total number of participants is not stated. What's with the overlapping or gapping ranges? The full-time categories all list 0, and 0-1, yet omit 2-4. Many range end-points are included in two ranges. "If you raised money, house [sic] much did you raise..." (#14) etc.
- kjhughes 17y agoInteresting how little funding the participants received: Only 18% of were funded (#13), and 25% of those received less than $5k (#14).
- lsternlicht 17y agoVery difficult to believe (even rationalizing a success bias) that 60% are generating $1,000-$10,000 when 55% have costs of less than $1,000.
- MicahWedemeyer 17y agoGotta call bullshit on this one: Percentage of active users on your free plan Only 6% of sites have >50% of active users on their free plan? So, 94% of freemium web apps have >50% conversion rates, and 43% have >99% conversion? Guess that means I'm really, really bad at converting free -> paid. It kind of makes sense when inverted, but that's a really bad typo.
- dschobel 17y agoIf you raised money, what percentage of the company do the founders still own? That's pretty depressing that more than 1 in 10 of the responding founders said they owned less than 20% of their companies.
- avibryant 17y agoIt's the correlations that would be interesting here - how does marketing cost per user relate to revenue per user? How do monthly costs relate to number of active users? Etc. Or even if we could see all these same pie charts, but filtered to (eg) companies with between 20 and 50k in monthly revenue...