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What companies that are making at least $1 million a year didn’t take funding?

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Re: What companies that are making at least $1 million a year didn’t take funding?

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and of course there are many non-funded, non-tech, startups that make that much after 2-3 years too.

I spent a few years managing a bar that grossed that much. It's not a lot of money for a business.

Are we talking about gross or net here? It isn't clear. But yes, most capital intensive ventures are going to get a big gross.

Re: What companies that are making at least $1 million a year didn’t take funding?

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I'm amazed you weren't able to get more responses to this, but after racking my brain it took a bit to come up with one.

How about Threadless? Though I can't seem to find anything that says when they were founded, I'd guess it's about 3 years, but could be more.

37 Signals didn't taking funding until after they were already successful, and of course they've been around for more than 3 years.

Re: What companies that are making at least $1 million a year didn’t take funding?

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I'm amazed you weren't able to get more responses to this, but after racking my brain it took a bit to come up with one. How about Threadless? Though I can't seem to find anything that says when they were founded, I'd guess it's about 3 years, but could be more. 37 Signals didn't taking funding until after they were already successful, and of course they've been around for more than 3 years.

threadless was founded in 2000ish. they didn't take money until around 2007ish.

37signals is about the same (time period and what not)

Re: What companies that are making at least $1 million a year didn’t take funding?

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37Signals [Signal vs Noise blog] has a feature called "Bootstraped, Profitable, and Proud" latest is below, there is at least one more I've read. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2385-bootstrapped-profitable-...

That one is Logik and the other one is Campaign Monitor

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2342-bootstrapped-profitable-...

Re: What companies that are making at least $1 million a year didn’t take funding?

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post #3

and of course there are many non-funded, non-tech, startups that make that much after 2-3 years too.

I spent a few years managing a bar that grossed that much. It's not a lot of money for a business.

I know it's not a lot, but I am trying to learn from these company.

Re: What companies that are making at least $1 million a year didn’t take funding?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spent a few years managing a bar that grossed that much. It's not a lot of money for a business.

Are we talking about gross or net here? It isn't clear. But yes, most capital intensive ventures are going to get a big gross.

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