Articles by Joshua Hall

As Innovation Showcase highlighted last week, Indy's tech sector and startup communities are thriving. The growth we're seeing in new firms and technologies and young new talent is driving creation of new co-working spaces with more set to open yet this year. Both the Indianapolis Business Journal and Indiana Chamber BizVoice magazine have run feature […]

If people grew like Innovation Showcase has grown, we'd all be giants. Growing from a conference room and hallway at the Purdue Research Park with a handful speakers and companies in 2009, to what we experienced at Dallara Indycar Factory last Thursday is remarkable —  a record-breaking year in terms of attendance, sponsorship, partnerships, prize package, number […]

On the eve of Innovation Showcase, Indy's premier event for fundable companies and capital, a new pre-party event called REVEAL: University Technologies celebrated the best startup technologies and investment opportunities coming out of three of Indiana's most prolific research and development institutions — Indiana University, Purdue University and Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division. Frankly, the […]

If you had to guess how much money parents spend on private sports lessons for kids in America, would you come up with $6 billion? The former athletes who founded bookacoach saw the potential for a new platform to serve this market — connecting parents with the right coaches for their children — and their […]

The biggest takeaway for me from today’s New Economy New Rules panel discussion about Net Neutrality wasn’t clarity on which camp’s regulation demands are better. What I walked away with was a question about whether or not government intervention would untangle the complexity, make it worse, or create a new universe of unintended consequences. Our […]

More than 700,000 Hoosiers have some college but no degree. That’s like almost the entire population of Indianapolis fighting with one arm tied behind their backs. Going back to school and/or seeking advanced degrees is already a tough sell for many busy adults with full-time jobs and responsibilities, but the thought of going into debt […]

Convincing Indiana CIOs to buy technology from Indiana tech companies isn't as difficult as it once was. In fact, many CIOs are eager to "buy local" and put their money where their mouth is as long as the products and services are equal to or superior than out-of-state tech. The biggest obstacle to buying local […]

RepuCare Onsite, a, Indianapolis-based health and wellness company that also operates onsite health clinics for employers, announced yesterday that they bought Spectrum Health Services, a company that provides complementary services and also operates clinics. The interesting tech connection, says deal advisor Brian Modiano, is that combining Spectrum's 17 years of data with RepuCare's 18 years […]