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Ask HN: Bootstrap companies that were acquired?

10 points by marcomassaro ↗ HN
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.

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tptacek
We were acquired.
marcomassaro
Would 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
Founded '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

cnaut
courserank was bootstrapped and acquired by chegg