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Industry events can be a big waste of time or they can be the key to growing your business. How an industry event like the upcoming Innovation Showcase will impact your business depends on how well you prepare and what you do afterwards. I can’t tell you exactly how many trade shows or expos in […]

Steve Hodges is happy that he and his teammates won $1,500 cash and a whole host of prize package perks for winning one of the five different challenges from the Indy Civic Hackathon. What he’s really proud of, however, is using his skills as a developer to help the community. “It’s great to have the […]

If you’re planning on going to the Innovation Showcase in Indianapolis on July 9th, you really need to brush up on your Chris Heivly — the opening keynote speaker. Sure, Chris helped co-found MapQuest (sold to AOL for $1.2B) and he’s held leadership roles with companies ranging in size from $200,000 to $20 million, but it’s […]

It is an inescapable fact that Indiana faces a growing gap between the number of jobs that require technical skills and the number of workers who possess them. This reality was made abundantly clear in a recent study by HireUp Indy and TechPoint. It found that computer and information technology (IT) jobs in Indiana grew […]

This week is all about entrepreneurs in the state of Indiana. At events across the state, entrepreneurs are being recognized and celebrated for turning their passions into reality and igniting Indiana’s economy. Nearly 1.2 million Hoosiers are employed by a small business and more than 97 percent of all Indiana businesses are classified as small. Indiana Entrepreneurship Week celebrates all […]