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Startup aims to take business cards into digital age
September 22, 2012
Andrea Muirragui DavisIndianapolis entrepreneur Nick Carter thinks he’s found a way to eliminate the “black hole” of marketing
data: smart business cards that track how recipients use them.
MoreBuilding relationships pays off for contractor Gray
July 7, 2012
Andrea Muirragui DavisSteve Gray Renovations grew during the remodeling industry’s worst downturn in more than two decades.
MoreImage consultant aims to meld personal, professional styles
June 23, 2012
Andrea Muirragui DavisSola Adelowo, a certified image consultant and owner of Indianapolis-based ImageCube LLC, uses a surprisingly scientific process
that starts with a personality-type assessment and results in custom-style kits and an illustrated wardrobe guide.
MoreFirm finds opportunity helping employers with hiring
April 28, 2012
Andrea Muirragui DavisRushville-based Barada Associates Inc. specializes in helping business clients make good hiring decisions—services that
have become more popular as companies find themselves inundated with eager applicants looking for work.
MoreEntrepreneurs see early success with new liqueur
March 24, 2012
Andrea Muirragui DavisBlue MF is a vodka-and-rum-based liqueur concocted by three Indiana University fraternity brothers turned entrepreneurs. Their
firm, Indianapolis-based More Fun Liqueur, launched its signature drink in October and now is seeking investors to help fund
expansion.
MoreStartup coaches clients on dating
February 11, 2012
Hayleigh ColomboMiss Pivot is a social-skills training company that offers one-on-one coaching from professional “wing” women,
group classes on topics like starting conversations, and now a mobile app that promises users the knowledge they need to “Fire
Cupid.”
MoreContractor uses 'process mapping' to overhaul business
January 28, 2012
Andrea Muirragui DavisProClad Inc. founder Brad Hitzfield invested in a 30-year business veteran to help him remake his
specialty construction firm when profits couldn't keep pace with revenue.
MoreMartinsville Candy Kitchen hangs hopes on handmade canes
November 26, 2011
Andrea Muirragui Davis
Shop owners John and Pam Badger churn out more than 20,000 candy canes in November and December,
but they'd like to boost business the other 10 months of the year.
Owner launches HVAC business after selling family firm
October 29, 2011
Andrea Muirragui DavisLarry Howald sold his father’s 40-employee HVAC business to Lennox in 2000 during a wave of industry consolidation.
He stayed with the firm for a decade, but has now left to strike out on his own again.
MoreBig ambitions for small planning firm
September 24, 2011
Andrew SmithEden Collaborative, the three-man company Adam Thies founded in 2004, is working to revitalize St. Clair Place on Indianapolis’
east side, among other projects.
MoreNot all fun and games for north-side comedy club
August 27, 2011
Andrew SmithNew owners' focus on business practices, bigger-name comedians put Morty’s Comedy Joint on stronger footing.
MoreHomegrown firm creates stir with Bloody Mary mix
July 23, 2011
Andrew SmithHoosier Momma Bloody Mary mix started 18 months ago and already is a profitable entity available in 350 locations and six
states. This month, Hoosier Momma expanded into Kentucky, thanks to a deal with national distribution giant Southern Wine
and Spirits.
MoreBig-box connection helps duo fight microbes
July 16, 2011
Chris O'MalleyAn Anderson-based company plans to take on popular disinfectants like Lysol with a mold-preventive product that its two founders
have already convinced national home-improvement chain Home Depot to sell.
MoreCustom work helps tiny sign shop land big clients
June 25, 2011
Maria LaMagnaACS Sign Solutions is a small Hoosier company with a far reach, landing recent deals to create signs for The New York
Times offices and Avon Cosmetics’ corporate headquarters in Manhattan.
MoreFamily has steely plan for shifting business to next generation
May 28, 2011
Norm HeikensWestfield Steel owners Karyn and Fred Prine are well on the way to transitioning to the next generation—son Fritz—thanks
to timely planning.
MoreRise of machines bodes well for tech firm Mesh Systems
May 28, 2011
Chris O'MalleyThe founder of Mesh Systems, a company that develops wireless “machine-to-machine” communications software and
hardware, says his products have countless applications. Earlier this month, Mesh closed on a $2.5 million private placement
from investors in Indiana and Wisconsin.
MoreFountain Square staple Peppy Grill thrives on independence
March 19, 2011
Marc D. AllanThe sign behind the counter at the we-never-close greasy spoon sums up its distinct personality: “Cows may come and
cows may go, but the bull in this place goes on forever.”
MoreWrecker business emerges from sad circumstances
February 5, 2011
Sean MorrisonAfter Tammy and Tony Hanna each lost a parent to cancer, the couple took $175,000 from their parents’ life-insurance
policies to start Hanna’s Wrecker Service. It opened in October 2008 with five trucks and 13 employees, and now has
seven trucks and 17 workers, and plans to move to a larger site that will allow for additional growth.
MoreHoly Cross startup sees plenty of room for more craft brewers
December 18, 2010
Cory SchoutenA startup brewery called Flat 12 Bierwerks has ignited a revival along lonely Dorman Street in Holy Cross, one of the city’s
oldest neighborhoods.
MoreINSIDE DISH: Saffron Cafe surges in second year
December 17, 2010
Mason King
After a $150,000 startup and skin-of-their-teeth opening in 2009, sales at downtown's Moroccan eatery have
spiked as word has spread.
Office-supply cooperative Stationers lands big contract
December 11, 2010
Francesca JaroszA local company whose mission is to help mom-and-pop office-products dealers survive has a new weapon in the fight against
big-box retailers.
MoreProduction firm turns out TV shows without leaving state
November 27, 2010
Sam BrattainIndiana-based MMY Productions, an independent production company that specializes in reality TV, is working on a new show
that chronicles action at Terre Haute's Crossroads Raceway.
MoreOld-school costume shop survives new competition
October 23, 2010
Sam BrattainCostumes by Margie isn’t a strip mall box store full of packaged—and disposable—costumes for sale. The shop
has a variety of clothing and accessories for rent and a staff, including owner Cheryl Harmon, ready to help put together
whatever disguise a customer can dream up.
MoreSurveillance trailblazer Exacq Technologies touts big clients, rapid growth
September 25, 2010
Chris O'MalleyClever adaptation of new technology has helped propel Exacq Technologies’ dizzying 1,624-percent growth rate in the
last three years.
MoreOwners enjoy Melody Inn's niche as well-worn music venue
September 18, 2010
Marc D. AllanSince Melody Inn owners Dave Brown and Rob Ondrish bought the 38th and Illinois streets mainstay in 2001, they figure more
than 7,000 bands have played on the 18-inch-high stage tucked just inside their front door.
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Cats out of the bag. The object of the game is to get acquired. That means the company has no idea how to grow beyond a certain point. Email is a 1990s technology. I have laughed at this company since day one. Such a small bit player. If it was anywhere but here, it wouldn't be newsworthy.
Esther, Indy has passed Chicago in the local government corruption arena. Don't downgrade us. We're No. 1 in the Midwest.
Does the buyer get to keep the recent Accu-Chek J.D. Power award? Be careful, those Swiss cannot be trusted. Last June they pimped Mayor Ballard and former Governor Daniels at a media op, announcing plans to invest "$300 million at its Indianapolis headquarters, creating up to 100 new jobs by 2017," only to turn around and close the Roche Nutley, NJ facility and eliminate 1000 jobs there later the same week. It seems that healthcare can be innovated only as long as money is to be made. Right now Roche seems to have big eyes for China: there are many Chinese in China and potential billions in Swiss francs! Since Roche is having difficulty with US insurance companies swallowing the bill for overpriced cancer drugs (with debatable efficacy) why not sell insurance to the Chinese and market the drugs to them there? There is a name for these sort of business practices however proper decorum precludes it use in this forum.
Same kind of Luddites who oppose I-69. Guessing their 501(c)(4) application probably sailed right through the IRS.