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HCSS: Employee Ownership and the Entrepreneurial Spirit

In: Shared Entrepreneurship

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  • Olivier P. Roche
  • Frank Shipper

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HCSS (Heavy Construction Systems Specialists, Inc.) was founded in 1986. For the first few years, the company’s office was in the home of its founder and president, Mike Rydin. Mike had previously worked in the estimating department of a large heavy construction company where he understood, firsthand, the importance of bidding and time crunches.2 He decided to address this critical issue. Within a few years he hired his first employee, a programmer named Carl, and they created a software package, the DOS version of HeavyBid. This estimating software was made for infrastructure contractors who bid on projects ranging from $50,000 to over $1 billion. A key feature this young company offered was 24/7 product support; this was unusual at the time. Many times calls for help came in the middle of the night and were responded to by the president himself. Today HCSS still offers 24/7 instant support, now to over 3,500 companies.

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  • Olivier P. Roche & Frank Shipper, 2014. "HCSS: Employee Ownership and the Entrepreneurial Spirit," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Frank Shipper (ed.), Shared Entrepreneurship, chapter 0, pages 209-230, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-40580-7_12
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137405807_12
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