High school senior launching foreign language education technology toy
Mikaela Gilbert is a senior at Noblesville High School and, at 18 years old, she’s already been bitten by the entrepreneur bug. She’s currently in the development phase of an education technology toy that is designed to teach basic vocabulary in a variety of foreign languages to children. Her project began with an old assignment […]
The KPIs You Need for Agile Startup Marketing
Staying agile means that you’re flexible enough as a company to change what isn’t working and scale up what is working. Other than development, no other department at a startup should be more agile than marketing. Many startups waste thousands of dollars a month on marketing channels and campaigns that produce little-to-no return on investment […]
Indianapolis now has fiber ready buildings
Businesses in Indiana and throughout the world are evolving in how they interact with their customers, partners, and suppliers. A couple of decades ago, fax machines represented the cutting edge in communications technology. Today, a business wouldn’t be able to survive relying only on faxes and landline phones to stay in touch with their stakeholders. […]
Jim McIntosh said he was gone for good
After Jim McIntosh graduated from the Purdue College of Technology in 1997, he moved west and swore he’d never move back. That didn’t pan out exactly as he had planned. The Director of Product at Indianapolis startup TinderBox (helping salespeople save time and make the sale from end to end) is originally from northern Indiana. […]
What’s happening at the Statehouse that could impact tech and entrepreneurship?
This week marked the halfway point of the legislative session. Third bill-reading deadlines passed last Wednesday for the House and Tuesday for the Senate. Beginning March 2, all bills that have passed on third reading will switch House and Senate chambers and will be reassigned to a number of committees. Are you up to date […]
4 ways volunteerism can boost your startup
When putting together a startup business plan or investor deck, corporate volunteerism isn’t a topic that typically takes up a lot of space. However, it can pay true dividends for your company in terms of recruiting tech talent, retaining employees and employee satisfaction, and lean startup marketing. Here are a few ways in which volunteering […]
Would $30,000 help take your business to the next level?
At Comcast Business we believe that smart, strategic use of technology can catapult a business to an entirely new level. We want to know what your business would do with a $30,000 investment in technology. Tell us how you would use $30,000 to invest in technology and you could win the investment to take your […]
From big company to small and from MN to home
Last year around this time, Katie Sexton was in the middle of a Minnesota winter. She says that winter was one of the factors that prompted her to get serious about a move home to central Indiana. While Indiana may not be able to promise her a vastly kinder winter, the Indy tech scene certainly […]
