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I am delighted to be speaking today at the National Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) Conference in Las Vegas. The topic of my presentation at the conference is “Consolidated CDA & Meaningful Use,” which are hot-button issues among physicians nationwide due to stringent, though well-meaning new regulations. What is Meaningful Use? Meaningful Use (MU) embodies government regulations […]

The term “UX” has been floating around the tech world for years, but it still dumbfounds many business owners. What is UX and why should I care? A few years ago, many business owners laughed in the face of UX design. Some called it a fad. Others claimed it had no effect on the bottom […]

Originally from DeKalb County in northeastern Indiana, Roger Deetz is a software architect on the Angie’s List development team revolutionizing the way people hire service providers. All that data gathered over 20 years in the business is being turned into products, and Roger’s team is building them. After graduating from IU Bloomington, Roger moved to […]

The three participants on Entrepreneur Bootcamp’s “Young Entrepreneurs Panel” have a lot in common. All three of them are graduates of Indiana universities (Ilya and Peter met when they were involved in student government at IU and Chris graduated from Purdue), they’ve all participated in Startup Chile, Peter and Chris both graduated from Brebeuf Jesuit […]

A capacity crowd of over 150 people filled the Tile Conference Center on the Indianapolis campus of Angie’s List to hear CTO Robert Wiseman discuss the new direction for Angie’s list as well as the supporting technology for the new SnapFix mobile app. Walking tours were also given of their campus that includes 23 separate […]

Editor’s Note: The Indiana Governor’s Conference for Women is October 21, so we couldn’t have picked a better time for this thought provoking piece from TriNet on women in technology. Technology is still a male-dominated industry. Some say it’s due to chauvinistic managers who are naturally inclined to hire men. Others claim it’s the lack […]

Lesson.ly was started in November 2012 with a mission to make team training easy for growing businesses of all sizes. Over the course of 2014, software startup Lesson.ly has experienced rapid revenue and client growth. As of late, we’ve been busy checking some big items off the Lesson.ly to-do list. Here’s a bit more detail […]

You know Angie’s List as a reviews service that captured millions of customers on the foundation of trustworthy data and those now famous commercials. What you don’t know is that the company is taking 20-years of reviews and turning them into user-friendly products that make it easier than ever to hire a local service provider. […]