Pretty neat to see where things have gone since writing this post back in March 2012. In fact it’s been almost exactly seven years since writing that post.
Since writing that post, I have been fairly busy growing what I (and others that I talk to) would consider a highly successful small business.
Here are some quick notes:
1) We carved out a great spot in the website design, hosting and support market.
2) We grew from zero customers to about 1,400 customers and are adding 30-40 customers/mo currently.
3) We grew from one employee (myself) to 26 full time employees (we just hired two more team members this week).
4) Our organization is launching around 300 new websites/year currently.
5) Our organization is handling about 4-5k support tickets/year currently.
6) Recently, our week-over-week and month-over-month growth rate has increased substantially.
7) We continue to be 100% bootstrapped and self-funded, no outside investment, ever.
I hope to use this space to share some useful learnings and insight as a semi-young (32 yrs old), fairly successful, small business owner.
I hope to add value for those who are on or interested in a similar path, growing a small business – from the ground up, without any debt or outside investment, fully bootstrapped.