Our Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud series profiles companies that have over one million dollars in revenues, didn’t take VC, and are profitable.

provides high-quality LEDs and related products at a great price with fast shipping.

is a web magazine that introduces you to unique products with great stories at members-only prices.

is an online retail store that sells the bits and pieces to make your electronics projects possible.

makes custom guitar effects pedals that deliver oddball sounds, textures, interfaces, and custom paint jobs.

is a ticketing company that helps people get out more to live entertainment, like theater, comedy, sports, and music.

is a design, advertising, and interactive studio in Chicago.

provides businesses with an online merchant account and payment gateway to accept credit card payments.

provides live flight data, airport information, weather maps, flight planning, and aviation news.

is a small, opinionated, specialty bicycle business based in San Francisco.

helps people save a fortune on their insurance costs by comparison shopping.

runs an ad network for mobile phones.

operates a set of sites that help people learn professional creative skills and earn income.

sells a CMS that makes web developers more productive while designing sites.

makes Photoshop plug-ins for photography and graphic design.

offers public and private source code hosting to companies and open source projects using either git or Subversion.

provides user experience research and consulting for web, mobile and software applications.

improves learning by developing technologies used in UK classrooms.

delivers top quality WordPress themes for all types of web publishers.

helps colleges, universities, and institutional research professionals with their data systems.

is a homegrown web hosting company for businesses of all sizes.

helps marketers test their email designs across a range of different email clients.

creates screen capture and recording software for individual and professional use.

is an iPhone/iPad app for controlling your computer remotely from anywhere in the world.

helps companies find, organize, process, and make searchable terabytes of digital documents for legal discovery.

makes it easy and affordable for people to sell online without needing any whiz bang HTML knowledge or fancy design skills.

makes elegant email marketing software for designers and their clients.