Holland-based IT company grows out of garden

IT and technology solution provider Stability 1 has outgrown the garden. The year-old company, with six employees, plans to exit the Holland-based Business Garden incubator on Dec. 1, moving into a new office.

Co-owners Ryan Wallace and Jeremy Berens decided to stay in the same building in downtown Holland because they like the location and want to continue to have a close association with Lakeshore Advantage, the regional economic development group that runs the incubator.

They were in the incubator a little more than a year.

The Business Garden is about the same age as Stability 1, and the IT company was one of its first tenants. The Garden provides subsidized cheap rent ($250 a month), fast Internet, Haworth office suites, back-office support, access to technical infrastructure, and most important, knowledgeable people to advise startup companies.

Wallace says the company has grown past expectations. The firm tries to help companies become more efficient through the use of technology. For example, Stability 1 created a digital system to handle the processing of paperwork that allowed the company send documents over e-mail instead of the post-office. The system vastly reduced the amount of copying and mailing the firm does, Wallace says.

Source: Lakeshore Advantage; Ryan Wallace, Stability 1