Indiana innovation

Every year, government agencies award more than $2 billion in small business grants and contracts to entrepreneurs willing to take on research and development challenges that help solve problems and stimulate tech innovation. If your technology has the right potential for commercialization, there could be huge upsides in the form of incentives and profits by […]

Last week, I was one of the panelists for TechPoint’s monthly New Economy New Rules breakfast event on the topic of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) — two federal programs that should be of great interest to entrepreneurs seeking startup funding. From the official SBIR/STTR government website: The Small […]

Entrepreneurs use equity compensation, or stock options, to help build the best team of talent possible to work for their startups. Money is almost always very tight with startups, so stock options serve as a way to make up for less than market value salaries, as well as serve as significant incentive for employees to […]

To stay relevant and compete in today’s ever-changing digital landscape, having a base knowledge of how digital marketing and advertising works is important. In order to obtain that base knowledge, business owners and marketers often find themselves reading through a list of buzzwords, catchphrases and slogans. While on paper these catchphrases and slogans sound promising, […]

Companies of all sizes from all industries strive to uncover the growth strategy that will take them to the next level. What many companies learn, disturbingly slowly, is that not all strategic growth processes are the same. Vennli, a cloud-based software-as-a-service startup coming out of Innovation Park at Notre Dame is helping companies develop and […]

When Ball State University student Anthony Sparks and former student David Rogers set out to create a fashion app, they wanted to do something different, something better. They started designing a “what to wear” fashion picker that learns your style based on outfits you “like” using the app. What they ultimately created is Noria, a […]

What if your child had dyslexia and it cost you an extra $500 a month just to support her reading and other educational needs? You’d do whatever it takes – it’s your kid – but you would also wonder if there’s a better solution, because at least some of that monthly expenditure should be going […]

Investing in startups has been the vocation or avocation exclusively of wealthy Americans since the Great Depression. Rules requiring a net worth of $1 million or an annual income of $200,000 for two consecutive years safeguarded the public from 100% of the risks that became all too real in October 1929. Unfortunately, for 85 years […]