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.
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.
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.
In 2016, there were 1,244 members in the American Booksellers Association trade group, at 1,749 locations. As of this month, the ABA has 2,863 individual members, at 3,281 locations.
Even seasoned entrepreneurs and business executives have different takes about exactly what constitutes a startup—or at least a successful one.
The distillery, which previously planned to open a year-round bar at the Indiana State Fairgrounds, now operates as a retail-only concept.
Jon Rogers plans to open his shop, Take Care Records, by the summer near the intersection of 62nd Street and Allisonville Road.
Known for its macarons and cakes served at the Broad Ripple Farmers Market, Filigree Bakery now has a brick-and-mortar location at 6331 Carrollton Ave.
Scott Carr and Robert Demlow started Brotherhood Designs by repurposing retired fire hoses into American flags and honoring the legacy of those who have served.
More than 1,600 companies applied for this year’s cohort of the Comcast NBCUniversal SportsTech program, and Ekkobar was the only Midwest-based company chosen.
The layoffs are part of a larger campaign by the Trump Administration to shrink the federal workforce.
Indy Maven Founder Leslie Bailey said in a social media post that unspecified challenges “made it impossible to move forward” with a lease for a new co-working and social hub.
One order signed Friday night calls for the agencies—some of which are focused on minority business enterprises, museum and library services, and homelessness prevention—to “be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”
