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Cost of running my websites ($100) Amazon S3, Cloudfront fees ($60) PayPal , 2Checkout transaction charges (roughly 3.5%) Electricity ($50) rent ($100) Salary for my VA ($250) Internet Provider Fees ($30) Skype + Phone ($25) Some misc. expenses Office Comp. Backup fees - $10 Website backups - $15 Email Newsletter (Aweber) - $70

For a detailed breakup - see here: http://startupdesi.com/costs-of-running-web-business/

I did not include my hours in to this. But then I never do it.


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Nope.. $100k (US).


Well, that is just the post title on YC. My article still says $100,000 Revenues in <em>a</em> Month – Wow!!!


oh I know. congrats on that BTW. Interesting read as well.


Yes, the same Chandoo.. :)


@jjm... Most of the registrations are from US, Europe and Australia. We have roughly 50 students from India.

Course content was developed after we did a survey. You can see the survey here: http://chandoo.org/wp/2011/04/18/online-vba-classes-survey/


You are right and wrong. Not many people go to that page. My home page is http://chandoo.org/wp/ where most of my readers and search audience end up. And I open Excel School once every three months. I am doing this as it gives me opportunity to spend time with students and learn / teach better.

You would see lot more links and publicity the next time it opens.

I will also be editing the home page HTML to add link ES and other product pages. Thanks for your suggestion.


Google docs, zoho and office web apps provide most of Excel's basic functionality. I am sure they will evolve to be more usable, functional during next 5 years.



$100k has roughly 5x ppp in India.

And yes, you are right. 100k is revenues. Costs are there. Mainly rent, affiliate commissions, blog hosting expenses, site maintenance, outsourcing fees (to contractors). While I do not have audited figures yet, the expenses should be less than 20% of revenues. May be even less.


If you would take a salary fit to live on (for some value of fit!) what would the numbers look like?


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