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Taking a Swing at a Mobile Golf App

Who can have a private coach join them for every round of golf, use a GPS rangefinder to line up every shot, and receive a digital performance report while walking away from the 18th green? Anyone can thanks to William Sulinski’s AccelGolf personalized mobile software for golfers. Sulinski merged his love for golf, his interest in the Inter­net, and his entrepreneurial drive to create a fun, game-improving product that can be accessed from any golfer’s Web-enabled hand held device. AccelGolf is the first product offered by mCaddie, Inc., the company Sulinski co-founded almost two years ago.

The mobile and Web applications have a database of more than 22,000 courses in 60 countries, allowing golfers to keep a digital scorecard of their round, calculate the dis­tance of shots, and store information about every shot to help lower a score the next time out. The software is cur­rently being used by more than 40,000 golfers throughout the world.

“We are building applications that people are extremely passionate about,” says Sulinski. “Our iPhone and Black­Berry applications were downloaded by almost 100,000 people. The ability to have something that you’ve built enjoyed by so many is truly satisfying.”

Sulinski is the CEO of mCaddie, which recently opened its first office in South Portland. Now in his mid-twenties, he grew up in Dedham, Maine, graduated from Brewer High School where he started his first technology com­pany, and completed a degree in financial economics at the University of Maine while he and a partner began a com­pany that aimed to improve the efficiency of heating oil deliveries. mCaddie currently has seven employees, and Sulinski hopes to double that number this year.

Starting up businesses is something that runs in Sulinski’s family. “My grandfather built aheating company and my father built a construction and transportation company,” he says. “I started work­ing in the family business at 13.”

Sulinksi says that Mainers also have a unique do-it-yourself spirit; with the right resources, there will always be oppor­tunities for entrepreneurs to innovate here. mCaddie has received two Seed Grants and a Development Award from the Maine Technology Institute. The funding has helped the company create and grow its Web-based applications and bring AccelGolf to the marketplace.

McCaddie
William Sulinski
Support@accelgolf.com
P.O. Box 3514
Portland, Maine 04104-3514

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