Three years ago two Dartmouth students, Thomas Cecil and Ian Bateman, reached out to us with the idea of building yet another POS system. They had already built and sold a very successful online ordering company while in their junior year of undergrad (it grew to $400,000 in revenue in under nine months) and throughout the process of building that they discovered the dumpster fire that is POS.
Despite being only 20 years old, their observations were more accurate than industry “professionals”:
[…] problems along the way (like building a custom linux operating system). In short, we had a superior product but were not gaining as much market share as competitors.The lesson learned is to take the most […]