So this year, we once again made the Inc 5000 list! I was surprised to hear this but excited at the same time! Last year was our first entrance into this list and we made it into the Top 500 overall and Top 30 for Software Nationwide! That really excited us! Since the ranking are based on growth rates over several years, it’s very difficult to maintain high rates year after year so the list changes often and it’s common for companies to simply fall off the list right away. In a year like this, even though we’ve been doing well, I simply didn’t think we’d be on the list still, but there we ended up.

Focusing on high growth rates is something that is naturally somewhat foreign to software developers, but also built deep into our blood as well. Most developers focused on architecture of systems embed scalable ideas into everything they do. At Passageways for example, one of the earliest decisions I made was to separate the installation and deployment of our software from the development of it. So, we wrote an update system that would take care of deploying updates to any portal out there regardless of how many we had. This allowed us as a company to focus our dollars on scaling out the sales team and support staff and keep the developers busy writing new products and upgrading current versions of products. By allowing sales to focus on developing new markets and deploy large amounts of new products to a virtually unlimited market relative to where we were at the time 6 years ago, this was awesome.

There are so many new initiatives at Passageways, it’s great to see growth still be a center of what we do. I can only hope that our continued focus on the sales and partnership side and our incredible customer base will help continue to grow this very unique and interesting company!

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