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Ask HN: Bootstrap companies that were acquired?
I'm interested to find out what companies were 100% bootstrapped and had a successful exit.
This means they did not take outside funding from angels, VC firms, investment companies etc.
- krrishd 12y agoI think http://drifty.co http://drifty.co used to be 100% bootstrapped.
- marcomassaro 12y agoThey didn't have an exit and aren't bootstrapped...
- tptacek 12y agoWe were acquired.
- marcomassaro 12y agoWould love to hear a bit about your story. How many years in business, how the acquisition came about, what your doing now etc. Also saw in your profile: don't bill hourly, bill by the day. Any blog post or detail on this idea?
- tptacek 12y agoFounded '05, sold '12. We had grown to be one of the largest and most stable firms in our field. I do almost exactly the same thing now that I did before. Here's a starting point for the hourly/daily thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6105004 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6105004
- cnaut 12y agocourserank was bootstrapped and acquired by chegg