I'd like to hear more about how you rolled your nice little snowball. Did you have any VC? You didn't have YC, but you did get support from Gangplank (gangplankhq.com) right?
We are an orignial anchor of Gangplank, but never utilized any funding but am thankful for the community support. Gangplank is a great collaborative workspace, in the early days though there was not the formal mentoring or incubation to speak of that has become available over the last few months.