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Small Biz profile
Startup's stuffed toys help kids do good
December 15, 2012
Andrea Muirragui DavisIndianapolis-based Promise Monsters makes and sell plush toys that promote kindness through secret “missions”
kids are asked to complete.
MoreStartup 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.
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.
MoreOwner 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.
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.
MoreStartup aims to make online car shopping easier
June 4, 2011
Chris O'MalleyThe horrible experience John Kohlmeyer's mother had trying to shop for a car online inspired him to create DriveVelocity,
a company that not only overhauls dealer websites but also packages all their Web-based customer-relationship tools.
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.
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.
MoreOffice-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.
MoreFuneral company in 129th year keeps fresh perspective
August 28, 2010
Joe JasinskiFlanner and Buchanan Funeral Centers sometimes stretches the definition of “funeral” to stay relevant after nearly
130 years. The family-owned business began downtown and has grown northward along with the city’s population. Today,
it has 14 funeral centers and conducted 2,200 funerals last year.
MoreSummer is key time for those who raise Christmas trees
August 7, 2010
Joe JasinskiChristmas and July harmonize like a blizzard on Independence Day, but the summer months are perhaps the most vital for Tom
Dull and his wife, Kerry, who raise 23,000 Christmas trees on their peaceful farm in Thorntown.
MoreHome medical supply firm grows as industry boom approaches
July 10, 2010
Joe JasinskiDavid Hartley pulled $85,000 from his savings six years ago to buy Home Health Depot Inc. Nearly six years later, Hartley has reinvented the Indianapolis-based home medical equipment supplier, growing from a single office in Greenwood to 12 locations in Indiana and Illinois—and increasing annual revenue from $300,000 to more than $6.7 million.
Independent optic lab fights giants with technology
June 12, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlinBill Harding and his two partners in LensTech Optical, Greg Kyle and Greg Dallas, are striving to keep up with as many of
the changes in the eyeglass manufacturing business as possible. It's a tall order for a lab with fewer than 30 employees.
MoreStone Creek owner adding to his dining empire
May 8, 2010
Cory SchoutenMike Cunningham has run dining spots ranging from a bar and grill to yogurt stands and is now growing a popular chain of upscale
restaurants—primarily under the Stone Creek Dining Co. name—in Indiana and Ohio.
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These higher rates Co. e about only because physicians are now hospital employees. otherwise physicians couldn't charge these rates and share the windfall with the hospital. Community/rural hospitals probably not buying physicians practices and thus weren't getting the windfall anyway.
The incentive for poor people to get themselves off public assistance and "no longer be poor" is even with help...they're STILL POOR! Being poor, even with some assistance, isn't all that pleasant. (I speak from experience) It's a stubborn myth that poor people, who are on public assistance, are sitting in the lap of luxury. You should try living on just those "freebies" that you mentioned and see how meager they actually are. By the way, I didn't mean you had to buy/own a puppy...just pet one. :)
As near as I can tell the minority has ZERO constitutional obligation to offer a quorum to the majority. A requirement for quorum was inserted into the constitution so that tyrannical majorities could not simply shove through odious and objectionable legislation (which is exactly what they did.) By allowing a tyrannical majority to charge fines against the minority for exercising their constitutional prerogative to deny quorum the court as made a mockery of constitutional governance in the state of Indiana.
The voters elected the Reps to make a vote not walk out on the vote. They had to the right to exercise their opinion and vote "no" to the bill. Let me ask you this if you walked out of your job for 5 straight weeks would you get paid? Would you even have a job to go back to? If any elected official walks out on the people they should be arrested for stealing tax dollars from the public. They were elected to do a job and not leave when the job gets stuff.
I have been to several of their locations in Pennsylvania and always go in for 1 item and leave with a basket full of things. I'm very happy they decided on Indiana, now if only they would put the other store in eastside.