Angie Hicks and Mark Hill talk startups, lessons learned and life

Imagine packing a sixteen-week, graduate-level startup masterclass into one hour. That’s kind of what it was like listening to a very broad and candid entrepreneurship discussion with Angie’s List co-founder and CMO Angie Hicks, and Baker Hill co-founder and prolific angel investor Mark Hill. Tom Walsh, intellectual property attorney and partner with Ice Miller, moderated […]

Tips For Fast and Painless Customer Onboarding

It is often said that once the deal is closed, the work begins. Nowhere is this truer than in technology, where new clients must first learn how to use the product before they can reap the benefits. Add into this the notoriously tech-adverse healthcare industry, and you have a puzzle for the onboarding ages. At […]

Welcome Online Tech! New data center offers secure, compliant cloud and colocation services

After investing $10 million into an acquired facility and some serious upgrades, Indianapolis is now home to Online Tech’s fifth data center (the first outside of Michigan), and the hosting company’s full product line of secure, compliant cloud and colocation services for healthcare, financial services, retail and other companies in regulated industries. Mike Klein, Co-CEO of […]

New health IT data architecture improves doctor-patient experience

I am delighted to be speaking today at the National Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) Conference in Las Vegas. The topic of my presentation at the conference is “Consolidated CDA & Meaningful Use,” which are hot-button issues among physicians nationwide due to stringent, though well-meaning new regulations. What is Meaningful Use? Meaningful Use (MU) embodies government regulations […]

‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ eCeptacle PowerBin reinvents the trash can

Successful entrepreneurs often say the best startup ideas come from fixing a problem that everybody experiences but nobody else is trying to solve. Grant Jenkins lived and worked in walkable downtown Indianapolis when the idea for eCeptacle PowerBin came to him. Instead of seeing trash cans on every corner, he saw a better use opportunity […]