Deana Haworth has been able to combine her passion for helping clients tell their stories with the entrepreneurial skills she learned watching and working with her parents.
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More than 80% of small businesses in the United States operate without employees, and many entrepreneurs thrive by staying solo. For others, it’s not a sustainable path. But deciding when and how to grow the team can be challenging.
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Something was missing from her career as a commercial lender, and Cindy Schum found it in a small firm that sold janitorial and cleaning supplies. After early trepidation, she realized she already had the key to entrepreneurship.
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The founder of Meeting Services Unlimited launched her company at a time when Indiana had no established firms in the field, turning it into a go-to planning partner for major conferences and associations.
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As the senior director of community engagement at Yelp Inc., a website that helps users connect with local businesses, Smith oversees activities in the 100 or so U.S. and Canadian cities where Yelp has a presence.
Zionsville-based Intelligent Living Solutions, which currently operates from two different local sites, plans to bring everything under one roof in a new 20,000-square-foot location on 106th Street in Creekside Corporate Park.
Buying a business is nothing new, but entrepreneurship through acquisition—or ETA—has caught on in recent years among those who want to become business owners but don’t want to start a company from scratch.
Avant-Garde Systems Inc. has been one of the fastest-growing companies in the Louisville area in recent years.
Inflation concerns ranked as the second-biggest problem for small firms behind labor quality.
Small businesses are being impacted by economic instability, despite national predictions that call for record spending at small businesses this holiday season.
More than 2,200 people and small firms filed bankruptcy this year under the so-called Subchapter V rules, which make it cheaper and faster to win relief from creditors.
Small business owners with government contracts say the shutdown has caused payment delays and the cancellation of some projects, and they will be working to make up for lost time and money, if the government reopens.
Premiums for Affordable Care Act plans, which are used for thousands of small businesses, are expected to jump 114% on average in the new year, when COVID-era tax credits expire.
In fact, Smith founded and sold his first fishing-based company, which made lures, before he graduated from college.
For a variety of reasons, a growing number of aspiring entrepreneurs are choosing to become business owners by acquiring a company rather than starting one from scratch.
PNC Chief Economist Gus Faucher said business owners nationally and in the Indianapolis area are optimistic about their prospects despite ongoing concerns about inflation and possible recession.
Tiffany Phillips discusses how she got Wild Geese Bookshop off the ground, developed a national reputation and fights fears that championing the printed word in retail “doesn’t make any sense.”
Indiana’s new Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation is expected to focus on Main Street businesses—small businesses that are not venture-backed, not easily scaled and found in many towns and cities across the state.
But with that two-year spending plan set to take effect on July 1, it’s still not clear what the office will do and who will lead it.
IBJ talked with Heath last week during the Global Entrepreneurship Congress at the Indiana Convention Center about what IU Innovates has accomplished in its first two years and what’s next for the effort.
Telemetry provides artificial intelligence, video and tracking analytics to help football programs with player evaluation, scouting, recruiting and planning. It’s used by 25 NFL teams.
The company launched its production facility in the Bates-Hendricks neighborhood in August, focused on building a nationally recognized meat brand.
Christian Huber, 29, could have been complacent in riding the continued success of his family’s seventh-generation business, Huber’s Orchard and Winery. But he feels strongly that that isn’t the way to learn the crafts of winemaking and distilling.
The small bookstore is regularly drawing big authors and bigger audiences. A close-knit community of readers has coalesced around the shop and around Phillips.
