New Broad Ripple co-working space set to open next month
The Hatch plans to target creative types with its art studios, recording booths, green screens and more. It’s slated to open in early August.
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Nude photo scandal boosts local startup’s web traffic
Indianapolis-based event-planning website Snappening.com saw traffic surge this weekend, apparently from web browsers looking for nude photos.
Lawyers branch out as business execs, entrepreneurs
Sometimes attorneys aren’t completely satisfied with their high-pressure day jobs. Many start unrelated businesses like bakeries, vineyards, breweries and clothiers as an escape, or even a new career.
Indiana office to promote startups, small business
Gov. Mike Pence has created the Indiana Office of Small Business and Entrepreneurship that he says will focus on consulting, specialty programming, and integrating universities, private businesses and government agencies.
Developers of smartphone app win Startup Weekend
Recoverator helps users catalog belongings and generate professional loss reports for insurance agents and law enforcement.
What’s New: Indy NUT House
Meet Margaret Broderick and Mike Lehane, who opened Indy NUT House in May to sell “nice, useable things" to home rehabbers.
What’s New: Acting Up Productions
Meet Brian Noffke and Beth Hofmann, who opened acting school/production company/art gallery Acting Up Productions in downtown Greenfield in late summer.
What’s New: CrossFit NapTown
This week, we meet ex-IUPUI soccer players Peter Brasovan and Jared Byczko, who opened CrossFit NapTown last month in a Delaware Street building that once housed an FBI tactical team.
What’s New: Technical Threads
Meet Adam Howell and Matt Simon, who left “high-dollar, high-profile and high-pressure” sales jobs to launch a company distributing industrial fasteners.
New Fountain Square brewery shoots for August opening
The owners of a new microbrewery in Fountain Square, slated to open by mid-August, plan to differentiate the business by focusing on the "convergence of art and science" in brewing.
Kitchen incubator celebrates graduation of first user
Avec Moi, a company that prepares meals to go, is moving to a permanent home at 701 E. 62nd St. In recognition of the event, the city of Indianapolis awarded Indy’s Kitchen a $17,000 grant.
Indianapolis couple offers seniors a senior housing alternative
Unusual home on south side has a dozen bedrooms for folks who need to give up their own homes.
Twitter tool winner of Startup Weekend event
The winner, StatsSquared, now will compete against other winners from cities worldwide in an online contest for the overall top prize.
Latest Startup Weekend offers twist for entrepreneurs
Unlike past events in Indianapolis, this one features a panel of judges who will select a winning business idea, enabling a team to compete in a global online contest against other winners from cities worldwide.
INSIDE DISH: Entrepreneur eschews MBA, opens French cafe
Emilie Myers is getting all the practical experience she can handle as she and her mother (owner of Zionsville’s late The Pie Safe) try to push La Mie Emilie into the black.
Engineer doubles as inventor
Hidden Toilet Paper, a small business in Fishers, patented a device that installs toilet-paper rolls into walls, keeping paper
safe from pets and children.
Bringing self-publishing to the classroom
Professor Textbook aims to bring self-publishing to college campuses by helping professors publish their own textbooks.
PickyList helps small businesses market themselves online
Startup online marketing firm PickyList is bringing the Twitter/Craigslist concept local, and helping small businesses use
social networking and
online branding.
Real estate marketer launches 4 Walls Etc. from home
Startup real estate firm specializes in marketing, digital floor plans and site plans.
Emerging life sciences companies grabbing more in government grants
More emerging life science companies have found life in the form of federal
Small Business Innovation Research grants.