Ypsilanti's Ergun Technology hires 3, readies cash register software

When Verdi Erel Ergun graduated from the University of Michigan in 2006 he started an eatery in Ann Arbor called Burrito Joint. Quickly, he learned about the limitations of cash register technology. That tickled his entrepreneurial funny bone. He sold the restaurant and formed Ergun Technology.

"I used those systems as an operational system and they were terrible," Ergun says. "I just decided to do something about it."

The downtown Ypsilanti-based start-up is in the later stages of perfecting its software, Own, for cash registers and is readying it for market. The software allows owners and managers access to real-time activity on their registers, and, hence, higher bottom lines.

The 4-person company recently received a microloan from the Michigan Microloan Fund Program and will use the money to finish Beta testing and begin rolling the product out to coffee shops across the state. Ergun expects to expand to fast-food franchises and other similar retail establishments, creating a customer list 2,000 businesses strong by the end of 2011.

Source: Verdi Erel Ergun, president of Ergun Technology
Writer: Jon Zemke

Ypsilanti's Ergun Technology hires 3, readies cash register software

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