The company, Sproutit.com, incorporated in the state of California, was founded by Chris Bauman, Peter Gohman and Charles Jolley. Each Sproutit founder graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University in 2005.

According to the university’s Web site, “Point Loma Nazarene University exists to provide higher education in a vital Christian community where minds are engaged and challenged, character is modeled and formed, and service becomes an expression of faith.” Those tenets guided Bauman, Gohman and Jolley as they planned their new business.

“We are entrepreneurs who truly believe the central lesson of every course we took at Point Loma: That we can be successful by doing the right thing for our customers, our investors and our community,” said Jolley, Sproutit.com chief executive officer. “We view our business as a mission to help small business owners achieve their own goals of financial stability and security.

“The way we can help small business owners is to give them the same kinds of software that have given big companies a competitive advantage for years. We believe that technology can benefit every business, not just the multinational corporations that can afford to spend millions on customized software.”

The three classmates all are experienced entrepreneurs who entered college to study business and enhance the business skills they employed in their previous companies.

Prior to founding Sproutit, Jolley wrote several well-received software programs for large computing companies, including Microsoft and Apple. Bauman and Gohman, a staff sergeant and sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps, also founded a shoeshine products import business.

Sproutit.com, founded in 2005, is an Internet subscription applications service provider that provides small businesses and freelance workers with the type of sophisticated business software that big corporations have long been able to afford. By developing and distributing Sproutit.com’s own proprietary computer programs, the company gives small businesses a better chance of competing against larger enterprises. Sproutit.com’s first product-to-market, Sproutit.com Mailroom, is an e-mail management program that is scheduled to be available to customers in early-2006.

The company is launching a testing program so small business owners and freelancers can evaluate new Sproutit.com products before the software is widely available. To apply for a spot as a Sproutit.com tester, visit www.sproutit.com.