Lemonade Day gives kids taste of entrepreneurship
About 15,000 of central Indiana’s youngest entrepreneurs are testing their business-ownership chops this weekend in tried-and-true fashion: setting up and running lemonade stands.
Andrea Muirragui Davis
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Contest aims to find next hot ‘foodpreneur’
About 60 aspiring food-business operators entered the Hottest Kitchen Entrepreneur Challenge in hopes that they have the next big idea.
New owner moving EventzPlus to larger location
Less than two months after serial entrepreneur Jenn Kampmeier and her partners staged a grand opening for Carmel party venue and event-planning service EventzPlus, they’ve sold the firm for an undisclosed sum.
Firm finds opportunity helping employers with hiring
Rushville-based Barada Associates Inc. specializes in helping business clients make good hiring decisions—services that have become more popular as companies find themselves inundated with eager applicants looking for work.
State’s latest startup: Startup Indiana
On April 25, local organizers will launch Startup Indiana, a regional affiliate of the Startup America Partnership. The national initiative—and its regions—brings together entrepreneurs, funders and other leaders to help promising startups succeed.
Agency increases effort to help state’s artisans sell wares
Three years after budget cuts threatened the state-run Indiana Artisan program, the newly independent organization is moving ahead with ambitious plans to broaden its reach—and help artists and food producers build their businesses.
What’s New: Kreme Twenty-Four
Gary Patterson and Jason White bonded over their love of fashion and their frustration with Indianapolis’ shopping options, so they opened a boutique of their own.
Is entrepreneurship for the young?
Over the past 15 years, the percentage of entrepreneurs in the 20- to 34-year-old age group has dropped, according to a study released this month by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Entrepreneurs see early success with new liqueur
Blue MF is a vodka-and-rum-based liqueur concocted by three Indiana University fraternity brothers turned entrepreneurs. Their firm, Indianapolis-based More Fun Liqueur, launched its signature drink in October and now is seeking investors to help fund expansion.
What’s New: Grateful Pet
Melissa Kelly and Zach Pierson, who opened delivery service Grateful Pet LLC in July and are bootstrapping the business through Kelly’s day job.
What’s New: PatentStatus
This week, meet James Burnes, who launched virtual patent-marking service PatentStatus LLC in January and spent the first weekend of February hobnobbing with corporate bigwigs in town for Super Bowl XLVI.
Forget the glass ceiling … how about the ‘pink ghetto’?
What do you make of the criticism that there’s a "pink ghetto" of women-owned firms somehow less worthy than the myriad male-led tech startups that garner so much attention and praise?
Serial entrepreneur builds more than business
Westfield resident Jenn Kampmeier is a CEO—that’s “chief everything officer” in the get-it-done world of startups—who prefers an even-loftier title: Mom.
What’s New: Snappening.com
This week, meet Crystal Grave, who left a corporate marketing career to start event-planning resource Snappening.com.
A morning-after question: Now what?
The Indianapolis community undoubtedly will benefit from hosting the Super Bowl, but no one can just sit back and wait for the payoff. Lots of work remains—especially for small businesses.
Startups vie for Super Bowl exposure
One Indianapolis entrepreneur will spend Super Bowl Sunday huddled with startup guru Scott Case and another corporate combatant, working on a game plan for growth.
Contractor uses ‘process mapping’ to overhaul business
ProClad Inc. founder Brad Hitzfield invested in a 30-year business veteran to help him remake his
specialty construction firm when profits couldn’t keep pace with revenue.
What’s New: Happy Dog Hotel and Spa
This week, meet Bev Schroeder, who opened Happy Dog Hotel and Spa in Carmel last month.
Small businesses angle for piece of the big game
More than 400 companies statewide qualified for this year’s NFL Emerging Business program, an initiative that aims to open doors for minority- and women-owned enterprises seeking a sliver of Super Bowl spending.
DINING: Heidenreich resurfaces at Chef Joseph’s
Fourth in a month-long series of looks at newer downtown eateries. This Week: Chef Joseph’s at the Connoisseur Room.