Indiana tech companies

Great technology startup ideas can come from anywhere. The subject of this week’s Featured Company of the Week came from the waiting room of a high-end car wash! Brent Oakley worked in medical sales for nearly 15 years before he took a leap of faith in himself in 2012 and started his own business, which […]

It’s possible that it’s just the nature of tech entrepreneurs to identify problems and come up with creative solutions. The Indianapolis tech community, however, seems to me to have more than it’s fair share of startups and scale-ups that have taken seemingly mundane and complex business functions, (one founder even called his company “boring”), and […]

If you keep up with awards programs and “fastest growing” lists, then you’ve heard of the transit technology scale-up company DoubleMap. They provide software that enhances the rider experience and improves operational efficiency  of transit systems at 150+ universities, municipalities, corporations, events, and airports worldwide, and their list of accrued honors is impressive. DoubleMap grew […]

As the celebrated management thinker Peter Drucker says, “You manage what you measure.” Drucker means that you can’t know whether or not you are successful unless success is defined and tracked. Imagine a CEO explaining to her stakeholders that tracking sales or customer satisfaction is kind of hard and messy, so she’s just going to […]

I parked on the street and walked into the Center for the Performing Arts building in Carmel, Ind., which isn’t what I was expecting when I set out to interview a couple of high-tech software executives. But when the elevator doors opened at the top floor, I was definitely in the right place — if […]

SmarterHQ lives in a market that is growing faster than anything we’ve seen recently in economic terms. We’re talking smartphone adoption fast (but faster1), with triple-digit spending growth over the next three years in marketing analytics — quantitative data about customer behavior and marketplace activities. Beyond just capturing the data, SmarterHQ’s intelligent behavioral marketing platform […]

Tech jobs are hot. Tech sector growth is making headlines from coast to coast and Indianapolis is home to some of the fastest tech jobs growth in the nation, which is great. This exciting growth, however, is not limited to software developers and other highly technical roles. It’s not just for those companies we easily […]

Business leaders encounter a variety of challenges, but ask about the biggest pain points they face today and it’s a good bet you’ll get an earful about how difficult it is to hire and retain great employees. “If you think about how most job boards work today, they are pretty much all based on the […]