David Smith blogs about Stephen Hackett joining his indie company:

I am extraordinarily proud of being an “indie”, it is a meaningful part of my professional identity. As such I held on too long to a sense of needing to do it all myself. But I’ve grown in this regard and I am extremely excited about what Stephen and I will be able to accomplish together.

As Jonathan Rentzsch said at the C4 conference in 2007, indie really means “non-large”. Small team, usually bootstrapped. You know it when you see it.