{"id":7577,"date":"2017-05-19T09:33:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T13:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foundationsoft.com\/?p=7577"},"modified":"2017-05-19T09:33:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T13:33:02","slug":"entrepreneur-year-finalist","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.foundationsoft.com\/press-releases\/entrepreneur-year-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation Software CEO Launches Forward as Entrepreneur Of The Year Finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>May 17, 2017<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>STRONGSVILLE, Ohio \u2014 <\/b>Foundation Software CEO\/chairman Fred Ode is a finalist for EY\u2019s Entrepreneur Of The Year\u00ae 2017 Award in Northeast Ohio. Independent judges selected Ode this week based on the criteria of leadership, innovation, people philosophy, financial performance and difficulty. Ode began his first company \u2014 Foundation Software, a leader in business resources for the construction back office \u2014 in 1985 and launched Payroll4Construction.com 20 years later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter 32 years in business, this feels very, very good,\u201d Ode says. \u201cStarting as a programmer-for-hire, I never imagined achieving this level of success.\u201d This year\u2019s nomination is his first run for the award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can attribute any success I\u2019ve had to two major factors. The first is persistence \u2014 never giving up, regardless of the obstacles, even the failures. Believe me, to get anywhere worthwhile, you fail more often than you succeed, and you fail your way forward \u2014 so to speak.\u201d Ode points to several examples in the company\u2019s history, including the two full years it took to write the first iteration of FOUNDATION\u00ae construction accounting software and the thousands of phone calls he made to land his first sale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecond, most important of all,\u201d he continues, \u201cis to surround yourself with \u2018A\u2019 players, get out of their way and let them flourish.\u201d According to Ode, that philosophy informed the company from his first employee in 1987 to recent recruitment for Foundation\u2019s in-house Web development boot camp. In that time, Foundation has won 18 awards for workplace satisfaction. \u201cThose are my favorite,\u201d he admits. \u201cThose are what really tell me we\u2019re doing a good job here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Northeast Ohio award winners will be announced at a special June 22 gala at the Hilton Downtown Cleveland. If Ode wins, he will be eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year National competition in Palm Springs, California, on November 18, 2017.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"About_Foundation_Software\"><\/span>About Foundation Software<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Foundation Software delivers job cost accounting, project management and mobile applications, along with payroll and bookkeeping services, to help contractors run the business side of construction. For more information, call (800) 246-0800 or email <a href=\"mailto:info@foundationsoft.com\">info@foundationsoft.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 17, 2017 STRONGSVILLE, Ohio \u2014 Foundation Software CEO\/chairman Fred Ode is a finalist for EY\u2019s Entrepreneur Of The Year\u00ae 2017 Award in Northeast Ohio. Independent judges selected Ode this week based on the criteria of leadership, innovation, people philosophy, financial performance and difficulty. 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