Startup Turns Your Tablet Into a Point-of-Sale System Own Point of Sale offers cafes and coffee shops a way to ring up sales in the cloud.
By Jonathan Blum •
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Truly brilliant entrepreneurship sometimes means inventing the product you've been waiting for.
That's exactly what Verdi Ergün did when he founded Own Point of Sale in 2009. A startup out of Ann Arbor, Mich., Own offers quick-service cafes and coffee shops a cloud-based point-of-sale system that works on the company's custom tablet computers.