Landstory, Joann Green’s landscape architecture firm, is a snug four-person company that has designed exterior spaces for some major Indianapolis projects, such as the JW Marriott, Lucas Oil Stadium and Indiana University’s Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center.
Too many websites for small and medium-size businesses that don’t sell online are a waste of time and money.
Crossroads Industrial Services Chief Operating Officer Curtiss Quirin has a certain sense of urgency as he looks to buy a business to add revenue to the not-for-profit contract manufacturer, because Crossroads provides jobs for people with disabilities, and generates a surplus that feeds the revenue-starved parent organization, Easter Seals Crossroads.
Both candidates in the Indianapolis mayor’s race have promised to help small businesses as part of their economic development efforts—to different degrees.
Chad Folkening’s latest venture, domain-management software called Domain Power, turns blank sites into a miniature business in a few minutes.
Brown, who closed his local operation in 2005, has partnered with suburban-Chicago-based Heidts Automotive, which makes street rod and muscle car components.
The home-security and satellite installer is pushing into the construction trades.
Both candidates for Indianapolis mayor are touting a host of ways to improve the city’s business climate. Incumbent Greg Ballard champions improving the city’s amenities. Challenger Melina Kennedy focuses on recruiting entrepreneurs to the city.
The company said in its initial public offering that it has lost money since its inception. But it still could be attractive to prospective investors, said a local lawyer who helps companies go public.
The duo behind Brozinni Pizzeria in Greenwood didn't know much about dough in the beginning, but they're making a lot of it now.
New owners’ focus on business practices, bigger-name comedians put Morty’s Comedy Joint on stronger footing.
Ball State University leaders hope the school’s $87 million geothermal plant paves the way for others like it—as an economic-development opportunity as much as an environmental effort.
Are new small-business owners better off buying a franchise these days, or should they go it alone?
Indianapolis-based Slingshot SEO, a search engine optimization firm, ranked 58th, tops among the Indiana companies that made the list.
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?
Startup Game Guru 2 U is providing entertainment for about 10 events a month, but hopes to triple its business.
If there’s one thing most small-business owners don’t have in abundance, it’s time. But investing more of that precious resource in social media appears to be worth the effort—if it’s done right.
Mark Schmitt, president of Rawhide Golf Ball Co., runs a business that recovers dimpled pills from golf course water hazards, buffs them up, and resells them. (With photo gallery)
Eddie Brochin, a lifelong outdoorsman who began leading hunting and fishing expeditions in the late 1990s, now chronicles his adventures in his own TV show, “Ultimate Outdoors with Eddie Brochin.”
Locally based Williams Randall will be Mike's agency of record.
