Bonanzle Nominated as Seattle's Best Bootstrapped Company. Vote!

You know it's been a busy couple weeks when we get nominated for an award and it doesn't get blogged about until a week later.  But (at long last) we are happy to announce that we have been nominated as a finalist for Seattle's "Best Bootstrapped Company" by a team of Seattle's most respected entrepreneurs and investors.  

For those that don't regularly invest in small companies, "bootstrapped" in business lingo means that Bonanzle has been built without using money from investors.  That turns out to be an exceptionally hard and unusual thing to do, but we are proud of how far we've come using the power of your positive word of mouth.

We are up against some very stiff competition in the "best bootstrapped" category, including Biznik, one of my favorite local sites for business networking (highly recommend checking it out if you're a service provider).  Ultimately, if we are going to win this award, we'll need all of the votes we can get from those that use and enjoy Bonanzle.  

Click here if you'd like to vote for the Seattle 2.0 Awards.  It's fun, anyone can do it, and it will provide 82% of your daily recommended allowance of random Internet surveys.  Thanks so much to everyone who nominated us for this award!

In other news...

We have at long last received our first set of graphic ads that we'll soon be pushing to content networks.   Take a look at right.  Snappy, wethinks!  This is one of four graphics, see if you can spot the other three coming soon to a content site or message forum near you.