Ask to be acquired?
patio11: frankly at this point, it would be impossible for them not to know who we are.That might be the view from your end of the equation, where you wake up every day and check your analytics stats.  However, if you are ramen profitable, your current sales are probably roughly equivalent to the healthcare costs of the night shift on the janitorial staff at one of their offices.  They're a large, publicly traded company -- they might not even know who you were if you worked for them.  (Far stranger things have happened.)  Its not like my bosses have ever come to me in the morning and said "Patrick!  There might very well be some young buck working in his kitchen on the next big thing in examination management systems!  Drop what you're doing and discover his identity so we can prepare to squash him like a bug!"We could deliver exactly what they're looking for without all the risk of developing it from scratch.I don't think you're thinking like a big company here.  You see existing code and think "Yay, working features!"  They see integration headaches.  You're not tied into their accounting system -- that is going to take six figures to fix.  (You think you can do it cheaper?  Wait until you start working in a large organization that does everything in teams of highly paid people whose salaries and healthcare benefits start running the second the first of three planning meetings begins.)  You aren't on brand yet, which is going to require a redo of all your HTML -- including a turf war between marketing, their product-side artists, and their web group.  Oh, and you.  You're a bit of a problem, too -- they can't absorb your code without you, but you upset the apple cart among multiple groups within their organization.  Who do you report to?  Who can you boss around?When you start thinking in these dimensions, you can see why they might say "We'll do it in house, own it all, and not have to worry about any complications."