Articles by Joshua Hall

Avon High School's "lip dub" to Daniel Kim's mashup of hit songs from 2013 was featured on ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer and the Huffington Post last night, and this morning Good Morning America did a segment on the video and used it as the bumper track for at least the first hour of the TV program.        This isn't […]

Last year, BidPal and Exacq Technologies were the tech firms topping the list of the Indianapolis Business Journal's annual "Fastest Growing Companies" list (numbers two and nine respectively). There were a handful of other tech and tech-enabled companies on the list, but there could have been more. To be in the running, companies must have […]

Every spring, TechPoint’s monthly Tech Thursday event presented by LightBound and hosted by Faegre Baker Daniels during the month of March becomes Mira Nominees Pitch Night. We invite all of the companies, schools, organizations, teams and startups competing for the state’s top tech honors in the Mira Awards to join us for a fun night […]

It’s not every day you get the chance to invent your own marketplace with built-in potential customers like Xerox, McDonald’s, the U.S. Army, Deloitte, John F. Kennedy Airport, and Panasonic to name a few. But wouldn’t you jump at that chance if you had the idea to bring a more flexible and dynamic delivery model […]

This post is a **LIVE blog ** that is being updated in close to real time with the New Economy New Rules event 2013: Tech Stories of the Year. Attributions are not direct quotes but paraphrased chronicling of the discussion.      Shawn Schwegman     CEO, Gusto  Randy Stocklin  CEO, One Click Ventures  Shelly Towns   […]

Working in and around the technology sector in Indiana for the past 15 years, one thing has always been true. Everybody needs funding, and not enough people know where or how to get it. However, the roster of homegrown entrepreneurs with successful track records has increased at least ten-fold since the late 90s. Battle-tested leaders […]

There are a number of business plan competitions and entrepreneurship-related contests that come around every year, and anyone willing to support startups with cash and free services gets a big thumbs up from this guy. But the newest program announced last month by Comcast Business — Innovations 4 Entrepreneurs — isn't your average contest, unless […]

Just a week after Inside Indiana Business dedicated its show and numerous interviews to women entrepreneurs throughout Indiana (many of whom are in tech), The Indianapolis Star reserved nearly two whole pages of its Sunday edition to 10 influential women in tech: How they're making a difference. This type of coverage is unprecedented for Indianapolis. Personally, […]