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Local firms catch podcasting bug
Growing ranks of Indianapolis-area companies have launched podcasts in recent years, capitalizing on lower barriers to entry and swelling listenership.
Growing ranks of Indianapolis-area companies have launched podcasts in recent years, capitalizing on lower barriers to entry and swelling listenership.
From the Auer Growth Fund’s debut in late 2007 through the end of 2015, its average annualized return was negative 5 percent, while the overall market rose an average of 6.3 percent annually.
Indianapolis-based marketing and advertising firm Matchbook Creative is spending nearly $1 million to establish a larger headquarters downtown and plans to more than double its work force by 2019.
Indy native Shyra Ely-Gash runs a fashion consulting firm catering to professional athletes, college and professional coaches, and business executives.
Fishers has become a mecca for tech companies—but it didn’t happen overnight and it didn’t happen by accident.
After a one-year hiatus, Borshoff is taking on high-profile clients again—but this time not for the agency she founded in 1984 that still bears her name.
House Bill 1386, which would also tweak a 2015 law that deals with regulations for the vaping industry, was passed by Senate 63-30 on Monday.
Seeing Madeleine and Lilly Jurkiewicz backstage before a performance, you might think they are preparing for a college talent night. But the sisters are launching a tour in support of their third album, one that could make the difference between a future as an indie niche act or a breakout success.
New rules block manufacturers from the market if the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission doesn’t approve them by June 30. But manufacturers say the law is impossible to comply with.
TCS Capital founder Eric Semler and two other outsiders are joining the board under a settlement announced Tuesday morning. The pact bars TCS from increasing its ownership stake beyond 12.75 percent. It currently owns 10.7 percent.
Lawmakers have advanced a compromise that seems to appease both small poultry producers who are part of Indiana’s “farm-to-fork” movement and those who say they are worried about protecting public health.
GreenLight Collectibles—a maker and wholesaler of replica cars, trucks, boats, trailers and other diminutive look-alikes—has managed to gain speed with growing revenue and new distribution deals—all while many of its competitors have hit the wall.
Founder Matt Hunckler believes emerging tech hubs across the country can benefit from the connections and information Verge offers, so he’s been charting a course for national expansion.
With prices tumbling for scrap metal, used paper and old plastic bottles, recycling firms around Indiana are watching revenue drop. Most are working harder to find buyers that will pay a decent price for their truckloads of materials. Some are idling operations.
JPMorgan Chase provided $200,000 to fund the chamber’s GoGlobal Export Acceleration Grant program, which will target smaller companies and provide up to $5,000 in matching funds to cover business and marketing costs associated with new export activity.
Angie’s List made history Tuesday by notching its first profitable year, but the company’s shares tumbled more than 10 percent after it reported underwhelming revenue growth.
The city of Fishers is investing tens of thousands of dollars in a consulting firm to address needs of businesses along State Road 37, which is expected to be redesigned into a free-flowing parkway, even though construction is at least two years down the road.
The Speak Easy, a 4-year-old co-working space near Broad Ripple that’s become one of the most popular entrepreneurial hubs in the region, is gearing up to expand downtown.
Casey Wright has licensed Ninja Zone to 130 gymnastics clubs in 42 states enrolling 10,000 boys. She hopes to hit 500 gyms by the end of this year.
Angie’s List Inc. and rival HomeAdvisor both connect consumers and service providers, but their business models are very different. That adds a complicating wrinkle as speculation intensifies that HomeAdvisor’s parent will take another run at acquiring Angie’s List.