A big e-commerce fish in a small Ann Arbor pond

David Fry, the computer science doctor from Harvard, grew a family printing and publishing company from Mechanicsburg, Penn., into Fry, Inc., a $55-million-a-year electronic commerce business in Ann Arbor. Not too shabby. The firm, started back in 1994, right before the dot-com boom of the late 90s, has no plans of slowing down – or leaving Michigan.

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“It’s easier to hire talent here,” Fry, 42, told me last week at his Ann Arbor headquarters, where about half his 300 employees work. He also has offices in New York, Chicago and San Francisco.

“Part of it’s being kind of a big fish in a small pond,” he said, “but we’re more likely to find good, long-term employees who are likely to stay, people who are a little older, more mature.”

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