$270k/month with a booze subscription box

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10 points·quickthrower2··8 comments

Wait, why do I care about $270k / month revenue? Retail means lots of revenue that is totally independent of the amount of money you're making. How much of the $270k goes right back out buying the booze?

That's the thing with these entrepreneurship forums, they (almost) only reveal their revenue.

I've heard many different reasonings to this:

"Profit margins are a private matter"

"Showing profits open up to competition"

"Profits don't matter at this stage, as we haven't scaled or optimized yet"

And it just makes for a better story.

Running $240k worth of ads to sell $250k worth of things sounds much less impressive.

Only if it doesn't scale.

100K a month for 2.5million in goods sounds like real money to me.

Does it matter, really?

It sounds like a nice enterprise to me. It might not be the highway to billionaire but definitely sounds well paying enough to have a nice and pretty easy life.

And he doesn't need to live in a high cost areas either as the shop only needs a smallish warehouse/cellar for the alcohol.

it's basically a story and was probably never intended to be a recipe to duplicating what he's done. I think it's a little of bragging and maybe even a little advertisement for his service. Just read it like that and it's a perfectly fine story

It matters if they’re selling a dollar for 90c and calling it successful. In this case, they’ve explicitly stated they’re profitable.

Yeah this isn't a VC funded company, it's a small business. With 270k a month in rev you can almost always carve out a very nice profit margin for yourself.

Seems like a super scam to me to try and resell it quickly

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