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Microsoft Gold Partner Celebrating 30 Years of Business!
By Kurt Voorhies
From the most humblest of beginnings...
​Celebrating 30 years in business is as good of a reason as any to wax nostalgic about our humble beginnings in business and our modest level of success over the years.
InterDyn Artis was founded by two high school friends in 1989 and loosely followed a business plan concocted in the MBA program at Virginia Tech sometime in 1987. Our original intent was not necessarily as ambitious as starting our own business but rather how to power through a project in our Management Information Systems course and get a decent grade.
The project's assignment was embarrassingly simple – complete the following thesis with supporting details and sound reasoning: "The greatest opportunity for entrepreneurs over the next 10 years is …" Keep in mind that this was 1987 when the personal computer was only starting to come into the mainstream in businesses that were historically dominated by mainframes and mini-computers.
​Of course, our proposition focused on automating accounting systems utilizing the power of the personal computer. Our hard-earned accounting knowledge as young (and inexperienced) CPA's would also be needed. Bringing together the bleeding edge of technology (remember, this is 1987) and the staid, old fashioned accountant's debit and credit green sheets would be at the heart of our value proposition and entrepreneurial opportunity. But could we make this a viable business? We were 27 years old, with families and mortgages and didn't have two nickels to rub together, let alone the funds to start a business.
​Fast forward 2 years to 1989 when we finally made the decision to abandon our well-paying and safe corporate controllership positions and officially take the plunge into full-on, no holds barred entrepreneurship. We sold our homes in the Washington D.C. area, packed up our families, raided our kids' college savings accounts (no worries, none of our kids' college plans were thwarted as a result) and started InterDyn Artis in the glorious and vibrant city of Charlotte, NC. The rest, as they say, is history.
As you may imagine, there were many, many lessons learned along the way to our 30th anniversary – far too many to recount here. However, several interconnected guiding principles helped us grow early on and continue to serve us well to this day. Hire, train and retain employees who are naturally curious about technology, business and view learning as a journey, not a destination. Search out professionals who are smarter than we are so they can elevate the company to levels beyond our capabilities. These employees, in turn, hire smarter people than they are, so on and so forth. I think you get the picture.
Looking back, it's been a wild ride at times (think the dot com era) and downright scary other times but such is life as a small business owner. We made it and, at least in a small way, we've enriched the lives of our employees, their families and our many clients along the way. And all from the most humblest of beginnings…
Kurt Voorhies, CPA
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
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