Articles by Joshua Hall

The 8th annual Connections digital marketing conference brought to you by Salesforce.com’s ExactTarget Marketing Cloud is coming up September 23-25 at the Indiana Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis. Connections is three days jam-packed with inspirational keynote speakers, educational breakout sessions and world class entertainment. TechPoint and ExactTarget have partnered to bring the Indiana tech community three […]

Every year, government agencies award more than $2 billion in small business grants and contracts to entrepreneurs willing to take on research and development challenges that help solve problems and stimulate tech innovation. If your technology has the right potential for commercialization, there could be huge upsides in the form of incentives and profits by […]

Entrepreneurs use equity compensation, or stock options, to help build the best team of talent possible to work for their startups. Money is almost always very tight with startups, so stock options serve as a way to make up for less than market value salaries, as well as serve as significant incentive for employees to […]

As the newly created chief revenue officer for Indianapolis-based hc1.com, Fairfield, Connecticut native Jeff Lautenbach is experiencing for the first time what it’s like to work for a company with fewer than 10,000 employees. He’s no stranger to building a business, though, and after several months immersed in hc1.com’s smaller startup environment, the smile on […]

Companies of all sizes from all industries strive to uncover the growth strategy that will take them to the next level. What many companies learn, disturbingly slowly, is that not all strategic growth processes are the same. Vennli, a cloud-based software-as-a-service startup coming out of Innovation Park at Notre Dame is helping companies develop and […]

When Ball State University student Anthony Sparks and former student David Rogers set out to create a fashion app, they wanted to do something different, something better. They started designing a “what to wear” fashion picker that learns your style based on outfits you “like” using the app. What they ultimately created is Noria, a […]

Junior Achievement is accepting nominations for its 11th Annual Indy’s Best and Brightest event, and one of the categories is technology. Indy’s Best and Brightest honors 100 of Central Indiana’s outstanding young professionals, age 40 and under, who are making their mark in and around Indianapolis. This event was created by Junior Achievement to recognize […]

What if your child had dyslexia and it cost you an extra $500 a month just to support her reading and other educational needs? You’d do whatever it takes – it’s your kid – but you would also wonder if there’s a better solution, because at least some of that monthly expenditure should be going […]