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Kim and Todd Saxton: Go for the gold! But maybe not every time.
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Q&A: What you need to know about the CDC’s new mask guidance
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Carmel distiller turns hand sanitizer pivot into a community fundraising platform
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Lebanon considering creating $13.7M in trails, green space for business park
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Local senior-living complex more than doubles assisted-living units in $5M expansion
Development groups form alliance
Business Ownership Initiative of Indiana has big plans for its 15th year, including a new location, a new partner and a new strategy for delivering its services.
What did you do this weekend?
Dozens of enterprising entrepreneurs spent 54 hours planning new businesses as part of Startup Weekend Indianapolis.
What’s New: CrossFit NapTown
This week, we meet ex-IUPUI soccer players Peter Brasovan and Jared Byczko, who opened CrossFit NapTown last month in a Delaware Street building that once housed an FBI tactical team.
What’s New: Technical Threads
Meet Adam Howell and Matt Simon, who left “high-dollar, high-profile and high-pressure” sales jobs to launch a company distributing industrial fasteners.
Cashing out: An entrepreneur’s dream or nightmare?
Some would say Larry Howald accomplished every small-business owner’s dream: Selling his company to a big competitor for “good” money.
What’s New: Amy’s PJs
This week, we meet Amy Graham, who opened upscale pajama boutique Amy’s PJs in Indianapolis on Oct. 1.
Flexibility lets firms focus on products, not processes
Can small-business owners afford to loosen their control of employees’ schedules? Can they afford not to?
What’s New: My Toy Garden
In this week’s startup profile, we meet Janet Pillsbury, who opened My Toy Garden in Carmel last month.
Venture for America aims to help startups
Modeled after the Teach for America program that trains recent college grads for two-year stints as educators, the initiative would put other graduates to work at fledgling companies.
Apple’s Jobs lived entrepreneurial dream
The director of IU’s Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation said Steve Jobs “epitomized the revolutionary genius that through hard work, determination and a maverick spirit, our world can be changed by one person.”
Jobs bill aims to give small business a boost
The American Jobs Act, which President Obama unveiled Sept. 8, includes several provisions intended to encourage small-business hiring. But would it really help?
What does Facebook tell your banker?
In addition to the expected factors like a potential borrower’s credit history and business plan, lenders increasingly are weighing intangibles such as moral character.
Is being your own boss overrated?
Freedom and flexibility are long-term goals for many entrepreneurs, but getting there is anything but easy.
Critics: Patent overhaul could hurt startups
When the Senate passed legislation last week overhauling the U.S. patent system, large multinational corporations like Eli Lilly and Co. rejoiced. But small-business advocates cried foul, saying the changes would put innovative startups at a disadvantage.
Should city do more to aid small biz?
Both candidates in the Indianapolis mayor’s race have promised to help small businesses as part of their economic development efforts—to different degrees.
To franchise or not to franchise
Are new small-business owners better off buying a franchise these days, or should they go it alone?
Stuffing the ‘best of Indy’ ballot box
Sure, it’s nice to be able to say you’re the best cat wrangler in central Indiana, but does it bring customers through the door?