Certified public accountant Dave Norris bought a 1976 Good Humor truck and started his family-owned U Want Ice Cream mobile
route in 2007, aiming to make a personal connection with people—along with
a little extra money.
Noblesville resident Tom Wagenhauser is revamping the Hamilton County-centric Web site FishersFind.com and hopes to double its weekly traffic.
Clad in iguana-patterned medical scrubs, Angela Lennox moves quickly around the clinic laboratory, administering barium to
a ferret and ordering a guinea pig X-ray. From there, she moves to an exam room, taking blood from an unruly bird and diagnosing
an injured pet duck—all in the span of about 30 minutes.
With an interior-design overhaul in 2004 and a business plan restructuring last year, Gina and Tina LaGrotte’s No. 7 Salon & Spa near downtown would be aesthetically and economically unrecognizable to their late father.
Here’s why some leaders are able to get so much more out of their teams than others.
Blue House salon owner Phil Salmon spends no money on advertising and yet makes a six-figure salary.
Small Business Administration loan guarantees in May. These businesses have received loans from financial institutions with a guarantee from the SBA.
After graduating from Indiana University with a business marketing degree, J.D. Allen saw every reason to combine his education
and his passion for basketball in a home business.
In this deep recession, many local small-business owners suffer a harsh dilemma: Heavily tied to a single supplier,
customer or industry, they must diversify or die.
Jean Wojtowicz, executive director of the Indiana Statewide Certified Development Corp., has been elected to chair the National
Association of Development Companies, or NADCO, board of directors.
In the midst of a $1.2 million campaign to upgrade streets, sidewalks and other neighborhood infrastructure, a coalition of Irvington businesses and residents is launching a unique marketing campaign to tout the neighborhood’s recent enhancements and position it as an alternative to places such as Carmel, Zionsville, Geist and Noblesville.
Since January, Heartland Distillers has turned out several small batches of its first signature spirit—Indiana Vodka—available at about 300 area retailers.
A focus on old-world quality with modern services and efficiency drives the owners of Simply Sweet Shoppe & Second Story Playhouse.
If you are a human resources professional, now is an excellent time for you to assess the human resource function in your
company.
Doubling annual sales might seem an impossible feat in a recession, but at the modest office of Williams Comfort Air and Metzler’s
Mr. Plumber, it is a reality.
Myers Protection sells and monitors a range of security equipment, such as alarm systems, surveillance cameras and medical
alerts.
With sales slowed to a crawl, some entrepreneurs must take second jobs working for others to make ends meet.
Call it a trickle-down effect, but not the kind President Reagan would have liked. The recession has cost most institutional
investors, such as university endowments, about a quarter of their value. As a result, venture capitalists’ primary source
of funding has dried up. The implications for Hoosier entrepreneurship are stark.
It's a rainy Monday morning and Doug Clark is making a house call–an early but otherwise average start to his week.
HALO Capital injects $8 million into startups in first year of operation despite recession and membership turnover.
