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The first post on Startup Meme went live on 22nd of March, 2007. 7 people visited the site that day generating 17 page views. This actually was not my first post ever, the first one was done on UsableContent on I guess 5th of March. UsableContent was hosted on Dreamhost and the server went down, when I wrote a detailed review of YCombinator funded startups, that attracted a couple of thousand visitors. Somehow the folks at Dreamhost were unable to bring the site live in 2 days, which forced me to switch to Media Temple, but I cleared my system by writing a well deserved review of Dreamhost.

In this one month, I have written as much as I physically could, but certainly not as much as I wanted to. I never wanted or thought about starting a blog, all I wanted was to contribute to Techcrunch or may be some other such blog. I sent an email to Mike asking to contribute to TC. The email never received a response and I started writing on my own after waiting for a couple of days. I have also contributed a post on ReadWriteWeb, which made it to the frontpage of digg. I couldn’t follow up on that because of getting bogged down with Startup Meme, something that I hope will change in the future.

After almost a month, I have written 220 posts with an average of around 6 posts a day, including weekends. As for the traffic statistics. See the graphs below. They show a comparison between Startup Meme, Center Networks – which is online since September last year, Startup Squad – which is also online for almost as long as CN, and Profy – a multi author blog.

The feed subscriber statistics are also very healthy, but for competitive reasons I don’t want to disclose those numbers. I also wanted to show traffic stats from compete as well, but unfortunately compete does not have sufficient data to show traffic stats for Startup Meme. You can see these graphs on Alexa by clicking here. Not to mention of course that the blue line taking off in the end is Startup Meme.

Thanks to everyone for visiting and do keep up with it.

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