Archive : Bootstrapped

Microsoft BizSpark is a global program that helps fast-track the success of early stage technology startups with all the right resources, including software, support & marketing visibility. Out of 450 [...]

Braintree helps online businesses process credit card payments by providing a merchant account, payment gateway, recurring billing and credit card storage. In 2007, Bryan Johnson was sick of working for [...]

Shape Collage is a software application that takes hundreds of digital photos and automatically arranges them into a photo collage in any desired shape. In an interview with Vincent Cheung, [...]

AnswerLab, provide user experience research and consulting for web, mobile and software applications. In a Q&A with Dan Clifford, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of AnswerLab, Fernando of 37 signals asked [...]

GiftCardRescue.com allows users to sell gift cards for up to 90% of card value in cash or exchange them for Amazon.com credit. Consumers can also save money by buying discounted [...]

Lynda.com is noted as the source for online training on such things as web design, graphics software, animation, video editing, and much more. At lynda.com it is believed that no [...]

Ghislain Kaiser is the CEO of and co-founder of Docea Power, a new startup that provides with Aceplorer the first electronic system level (ESL) solution for the modeling, exploration and [...]

The founders of Pyknic were among the most promising 25 businesses run by entrepreneurs under age 25. Businessweek.com readers voted them among the top five winners. The five winners that [...]

Threadless was founded in 2000, after Jake Nickell, then a 20-year-old web developer, won a t-shirt-design contest. With an investment of $1000, he built a website to which people submitted [...]

This is the second post in the bootstrapped series. Github was the first. I will be bringing you top startups that were bootstrapped from the beginning. If you know of [...]

Github was boostrapped and its been successful. According to Chris Wanstrath, GitHub was a weekend project. Tom Preston-Werner and I were hanging out at a sports bar after a local [...]