It’s a common trend among open source businesses to share their statistics in some form of a transparency report. Scott Bollinger collected some of those statistics from various WordPress businesses who shared their numbers this year and compared them.
It’s mostly for statistical data for presentations, and to analyze what business models people are using. I also have some knowledge that isn’t public information (from my own businesses, and people I know) that gives me a little extra insight.
But he also adds that you probably shouldn’t compare yourself too much as none of them were overnight successes. Plus, it’s mostly the successful companies sharing numbers.
Personal note to all my fellow business owners: don’t compare yourself and feel bad because you aren’t making what some of these businesses are. There is a lot of back story to these that you don’t know about, none of these people were overnight successes. If that’s you, read this post by Matt Medeiros.
A very insightful post and i find it pretty incredible what some of them achieved.
