Who Are You?

The results are in and now we know a bit more about who reads this blog.

To be honest I am stunned and flattered to have such a fantastic audience.

Some factoids:

You are overwhelmingly male (87%)

You are middle age (63% of you are between 30 and 50)

36% of you are CEOs or Chairmans of your companies (this number is frankly mind blowing to me)

63% of you make more than $100k per year

78% of you live in the US (i am slightly disappointed by this number as a much larger percentage of foreigners seem to comment and track back so i had hoped for a more global audience)

54% of you do not have children (this is surprising to me as well)

You are gadget geeks who others rely on for advice and specifications when purchasing technology

You spend way more time online than any other medium

And you are web 2.0.  You blog, you comment, you track bag, you tag, use RSS, and do all the same stuff I do.

Maybe none of this surprises you because you know who you are.  Now I do.  And as I said at the top, I am flattered by the fact that so many great people read this blog. 

Thank you

Comments

[Dave]

Middle-aged?

This 30 year old is decidedly not middle-aged.

Interesting survey results.

[Alex Krupp]

I'm surprised there are so few readers between 19-25. This seems like the best time to try a start up, when you don't enough experience to get a real job anyway and risk doesn't much matter.

[Erik Schwartz]

Nor is 41 middle aged...

[erin]

Add one more for the "chick" crowd...I tried to complete the survey, but it timed out...or something, and I failed to go back and resuscitate.

And since 40 is the new 30, your reader above is really only 20. This coming from a very not middle age 36 year old.

[Abby]

I'm a fairly regular reader, but I don't fit that profile. I'm a lot poorer than that, but I don't think that your target advertisers would be interested in marketing to me. And, as a matter of principle, I refuse to fill out marketing surveys.

I'm not somebody who people rely on for tech advice, because I don't have very many gadgets, although people do know that I'm a fount of general information. So the less techincally adept (think of someone who's only a bit more capable than your grandmother of handling e-mail) *will* ask me about technology stuff, and I generally do know who to ask to get the information.

[Bob's your uncle]

I didn't give my information. Rather, I just made up a profile of someone I thought would read this blog.

Perhaps everyone else did that too, making your audience look so homogenously male, middle-aged and rich when, actually, we're all just broke-ass sociopaths starved for attention?

[Ken]

18 year old high school student

[candice]

Alex: Totally unscientific opinion here, that is likely that most of my companions in that age bracket are still in the "go to college, find job" kind of mindset. A lot of the smart ones got poached out of college during the boom, too, and are working in big companies now. Two of the brightest younger friends I have (they're both 22) have gotten snapped up by Google.

I'm 24, I've already done one dead startup, done various consulting and freelancing, and am plotting the next company. Most of my friends think I'm insane. I know all of one young guy who goes off starting companies. (He's a hell of a lot more successful than I am, too - he started an ISP in high school, sold it to Earthlink, and that paid for college.)

[Dimitar Vesselinov]

27 year old, man, Bulgaria
I follow 7545 feeds...

[Brian Breslin]

I'm with candice on this, I'm 23, been running various startups/small businesses since i was a teenager. It is tough to convince people this age, who have ZERO access to capital markets like the older crowd, to bypass getting that first shitty job out of college and bootleg some cool idea they have. My friends thought I was crazy when I did it, and now they all look back and think its a fun thing to do (i mean, there is very little risk involved at this age).
anyway, just my 2 cents.

[daniel gold]

I would really like to know what Fred thinks about the 19-25 year old group that makes up the 5%. I'm 24. It also just occured to me that social networking should expand into the blog network. What I wouldn't give to meet young people roughly my age who are clearly motivated by the same pursuits as I am. It's not easy to do this even if your a super-extrovert like me because there just isn't enough time. Such social networking would make it quicker and easier for those people who share such interests amd view of the world. Myspace connects young people but not in the same context- at all. I use linkedin and other sites and have a number of contacts I don't know primarily because at my age there is little to talk to them about. It's not that I can't. I have. I'd have much more to talk about(regularly) with people my age who are aiming high. I could build a network across the continent of people that would lead to business relationships, friendships and who knows what else. Bang- a few new billionaires who met because they read the same blogs. This also applies to everyone else who reads blogs. Now you should all pay me 5 bucks. Or at least connect with me at idanielgold@hotmail.com

[Brian Breslin]

Daniel,
I think this sounds interesting.
I'm up for it. I saw something by the guy at okdork and avalonstar about a young professional network, not as organized and distributed as you talk about though.
Brian

[Zach Coelius]

Fred,
What sort of response rate did you get for this survey? Without that info this data is kind of useless in terms of assuming that your audience refects those who self-selected to fill out a survey.

[jackson]

62% of me fits 39 % of your findings.

Mom says I wasn't a difficult child, funny, I always felt like one...LOL....;)

[Marta]

Are you sure you've counted everyone? I'm over 70 and female. Big fan.

[HSN]

"...I am flattered by the fact that so many great people read this blog."

Are you saying one has to be a Chairman/CEO and earn $100K plus to be a great person? Just kidding :-)

25/Male/Harare, Zimbabwe