Haven home maintenance app is ready to disrupt half-trillion services market

Disruptive businesses can sound pretty crazy at first. I thought Jim Brown might have a screw loose when he first told me about Haven. It’s a free mobile app and website that uses public data and predictive technology to help homeowners identify maintenance needs and then get that work done and pay for it at the […]

Reflections on the Connections Conference in Indy

As we all know, on the final day of the Connections conference, the Salesforce leadership team announced that the conference will be in New York City in 2015. Before learning about the decision to move, TechPoint, the Indy Chamber, Visit Indy, and Downtown Indy banded together to showcase our city and tech community to the […]

Meet Edwin the Duck: the world’s first interactive rubber duck!

UPDATE: pi lab announced this week (10/20/2015) that Edwin the Duck is officially shipping to consumers from direct purchases through the Edwin the Duck website. A company official indicated that Edwin will also be available in Best Buy stores and select Apple stores “in a few weeks.” I remember the first time I opened up […]

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 […]

Health Tech Award winner PolicyStat changes the way organizations capture and disseminate knowledge for better outcomes

Carmel, Indiana-based health information technology company PolicyStat received the Health Tech Award for its policy and procedure management software-as-a-service during the 15th annual TechPoint Mira Awards honoring the best of tech in Indiana. The software was created in 2006 to meet the need for a better way to handle policies and procedures in healthcare organizations; […]