Innovation

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 […]

Those of you who know me know that while I love a new tech story, I also love a good history. Here is a local story that combines the two. The new tech story: While meeting with Brad Bostic, CEO of hc1.com, I learned that hc1 had formed a recent partnership with Beckman Coulter. hc1 […]

Indigo BioSystems announces the closing of its $8.5 million Series B round of funding to continue growth, and appoints Dr. Randall K. Julian Jr. as CEO. Indigo Biosystems (Indigo), the industry leading data review software developer for clinical, reference, and research laboratories, announced the closing of its $8.5 million round of funding today. The investment […]

A profound passion to help charities do more and the supportive tech community in Indianapolis inspired and enabled founders Walle Mafolasire and Tayo Ademuyiwa, M.D. to create the charitable donation app Givelify. Since launching the public beta a couple of months ago, Givelify has raised nearly  $1 million for about 200 churches across the nation, […]

As a new business with a small team, startups often face the conflict of too many competing priorities. Producing sales collateral, managing campaigns, updating the website, tweeting, pinning, and “liking” vie for our limited time and attention. This endless list of “what else can we do?” often leaves startup marketing teams running in circles. Startup […]