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For Bump Technologies, 3 million is a more significant number than 1 billion. The company that famously developed what was the 1 billionth iPhone application downloaded from Apple reportedly raised more than $3 million in its first institutional round of financing.
Groundbreaking ideas rarely make money without patience, passion and relentlessness.
Brad Spirrison: Chris and Kristen Conn had no idea they would be going into business together when their first child was born more than four years ago. The 35-year-old founders of Evanston-based MightyNest decided to cradle their Web startup after having trouble finding chemical-free products for their nursery.
To companies like BigMachines, the sputtering economy is serving as an engine of massive growth.
