Ask HN:can you name me successful solo (one man) startup?

Richard Branson seems to be doing OK.

plenty of fish, I think he makes $10 million a year or so.

For your reading pleasure: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol...

"Today, according to the research firm Hitwise, his creation is the largest dating website in the U.S. and quite possibly the world. Its traffic is four times that of the dating pioneer Match, which has annual revenue of $350 million and a staff that numbers in the hundreds. Until 2007, Frind had a staff of exactly zero."

I think you can call that successful.

Balsamiq

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=262258

yeah i was reading his blog ,great example

By one man, do you mean started by one man or started and still run by one man?

also yes.

Ebay - Pierre Omidyar, Amazon - Jeff Bezos

Mint