Okemos-based MC Squared Racks Up 300 Percent Revenue Increase in 2008

Okemos-based MC Squared charted a 300 percent increase in revenue in 2008 over the previous year. Its founder, Scott McAuley, projects the five-year-old information technology company will do the same in 2009.
 
He charted 2008 gross income at $1.5 million. Most of those dollars came from Capital region businesses, he says.

Now with 14 employees, the company, which specializes in IT services for small to mid-sized businesses, opened a second office in Grand Rapids a couple of months ago, and is considering a third in Flint.

McAuley anticipates hiring 10 more computer support people this year. The new employees will need basic network administrator skills.
 
His goal is to let people do the part of their business they do best.

“If you’re in manufacturing, manufacture. We’ll take care of the IT part of your business,” he says.

McAuley's story is a feel-good one of turning an unfortunate company layoff into an personal entrepreneurial success.

He left a mortgage company in 2002 and started learning all he could about information technology. While selling contracts for New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, he began picking up jobs to help others with their IT needs.
 
Burning the candle at both ends, he resolved to take the plunge to form his own company and has never looked back.

Source: Scott McAuley, MC Squared

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