Ask HN: Bootstrap companies that were acquired?

We were acquired.

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?

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

I think http://drifty.co used to be 100% bootstrapped.

They didn't have an exit and aren't bootstrapped...

courserank was bootstrapped and acquired by chegg