SIERRA BRAVO CORP.
Business: Web development company that translates the creative concepts that ad agencies and marketing and design firms develop for their clients into sophisticated, often complex online presentations.
Founded: 2003
Headquarters: Bloomington
Website: www.sierra-bravo.com and www.nerdery.com
Executives: Co-founders Luke Bucklin, president, and senior vice presidents Mike Derheim and Mike Schmidt.
Employees: 74, 58 of them developers
2008 revenue: $6.4 million, up 56 percent from $4.1 million in 2007. On track to grow another 28 percent in 2009.
Quote: "We do software engineering and code, not design and graphics." -- Bucklin
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