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Woo hoo! Suck it, Verizon!

What’s even more astounding is that I doubt that you have one of those ‘B’s behind the figures. Of course, that’s not something you would share, but to be on that list without it makes seem pretty evident that things are going up for you at 37S.

Some say: ” You are always judged by the company you keep!!”

Ok, so what’s your Market Cap in $B ?

37signals is a private company, they don’t have a Market Cap.

Does anyone else find it strange that 37signals is the only private company listed?

So that’s why us 37s job applicants had to redesign the Verizon homepage back in the day… just another stop on the path to world domination.

Congrats, 37s! :)

I am actually surprised by this list. Not by 37Signals of course but by lot of others. IBM SMB ? Are you kidding?! How are they helping Small business? AIX Servers? Global service contracts? Software development/Outsourcing? I can’t think of one reason why they’d be mentioned, let alone at the top of the list. Same goes for most of those companies.

I wonder who sponsored this survey?

Forget that. You’re number one on my list!

I thought this was going to be a post about making Server Message Block not suck. I should have known that wasn’t possible.

i didnt need that list to know that 37s was better than IBM or other companies.

although I wish apple was included on the list. Computers done by apple are specifically made for small business and freelancers – whereas IBM and Cisco targets big / huge companies.

Kudos…I’m a user experience designer and have interest in SMB (offering value and experience) – believe me 37s, you are the only company that I see as idols, I get inspired by you guys and do spread the word to my colleagues. Great Job.

For what it’s worth, IBM consider any company doing less than $4m/year of revenue with them per year as an “SMB” account. They have significant efforts to move themselves out of the heavy concentration of their revenue and profits at the high end; about 3 years ago, somewhere over 90% of their SWG business came from a relatively small number of accounts (something in 3 figures).

The big surprise (to me) that few people seem to know this side of the pond is who the #1 supplier of accounting software is to small businesses – and they sell this as part of a $30/month subscription. It’s one of the UK banks – Barclays – who are the #1 reseller for both Sage and for Intuit Quickbooks in the UK.

I guess the other surprises are why Blinksale aren’t in the list, and give the success of selling software under subscription terms to small businesses, why Blinksale are not are using banks as a sales channel…

Ian W.

Congrats! My question is, how the hell did Verizon get on this list?

I’m sure that if 37signals were listed, its market cap would be a lot more than $124.38B. ;-)

“top 10 vendors winning the SMB online experience“

My list in no particular order:

1. Yahoo for their small business merchant services. Allows someone to create a web store-front.

2. Google for Google Apps.

3. Ebay

4. Intuit for Quickbooks/Quicken

5. 37signals

I could go on but I’m bored.

Jason – you were a Fnance major. This should tell you, the market says SELL NOW . Of course, if you do, you lose all your cool points, and we lose a great company… but really, doesn’t this make you even think about retiring to an island?

Congrats to the whole crew!

Congrats for making a list of really heavy hitters. It has to feel good. So when do you think the lawyers with giant novelty checks will arrive?

retiring on an island is boring. what do you do all day on an island. if you would ask me what would i take with me to an island i would say. a mac book pro with a endless battery and a satelite ueberfast internet action. so i can do cool projects from there.

Awesome – good work guys! You continue to inspire!

IBM targeting small and mid-size business? Laughable. Sort of. To IBM a small business is someone with 500 employees. They have 0 interest in pursuing real small businesses lip service aside. If they did you’d be able to find 1001 vendors hosting Lotus the way you do with Exchange.

As a small business with under 10 people I can use Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint for a very cheap monthly price of $10 per user. Or Basecamp for that matter.

Tell me what I can afford to use from IBM .

Microsoft??? I just threw up in my mouth a little bit…

However, 37s definitely deserves a place on list. Congrats guys!