I cant wait to tell people in about 2 years time when TSF is a household name that ''I was there when these guys only had like 160k pageviews a month and only $500 in revenue''

Glad to see that the pageviews didn't dip after launch.

Question: how did you initially get advertisers? I'm assuming that the $500 ($462 last month) is from your sponsors adhering to something like this:

  monthly fee = pageviews * $X.

> Things I sucked at: > > 1. Article output has dipped: Situations arose in my life when I was unable to publish an article for the day. I should have had several stories in my backpocket that I could fill in the holes.

Lesser people would deal with this by still writing articles that are complete crap. Better not to write the articles when you don't have the time and energy for them, so you could have handled it much worse. :)

@g0atbutt - Speaking to bounce rate, the number 1 thing I see on TSF that discourages longer browsing is that, yes, you're absolutely meeting your ideal of 'more startup coverage', but I personally care less about the history of startups (day to day) than I do about NEW startups.

I'll typically hit TSF once per day, looking for something time-sensitive and, if I see it, reading that. If I don't, I'll bounce off. I usually visit the other articles on the weekend, which is where/when I read TSF the most.

What strikes me as odd though, is that 'coverage' is, I believe, a less time-intensive task than 'interviews', which is where you seem to be spending most of your time. While I value the in-depth articles, it would take less time to review new / launching / just-launched sites that I just happen to want to see more of.

Regardless, TSF is a staple that I recommened to all. I'm a little amazed to see that your revenues didn't increase more, month to month, but that speaks to the necessity of dogged persistence required of startup founders, I suppose.