Last year, close to 1,000 people traveled from around the country to pack the walls of a 30,000-square-foot warehouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. They came to talk with over fifty Midwest entrepreneurs and around one hundred business investors at The Innovation Showcase, an annual conference that combines a startup tradeshow with a 50-startup pitch competition. This [...]
4 Reasons Indiana Entrepreneurs Rock
They’re everywhere. Driven entrepreneurs infuse Indiana business with new life. Here’s why Indiana entrepreneurs rock: 1.) Indiana entrepreneurs have created a vibrant community. Organizations like DeveloperTown and SproutBox help grow early and idea stage companies into thriving startups. They’ve even begun to open the floodgates to the general public by generating enormous local press and helping startups [...]
Founder Story: The 5 Startup Principles of Successful Entrepreneurs
I grabbed sushi with David just days before he took the stage in front of two hundred hungry software entrepreneurs. What was intended to be a quick meet and greet turned into a 3-hour information lunch. That’s because over the past fifteen years, David DeRam founded and grew six successful software companies including Progeny, which [...]
Founder Story: How MyJibe Got Acquired Less Than a Year After Launching [Video]
“A lot of luck,” co-founder Mike Langellier will tell you. But there’s a lot more that went into the startup success of MyJibe—a personal finance management app that launched last January and was acquired just nine months later. So, how do you launch and grow a software startup outside of Silicon Valley and without external [...]
Leap Lets you Challenge Your Friends and Lock Down Your Bragging Rights [Pitch Video]
Now we’re importing startup pitches form other Midwest startup hubs. At our last Indianapolis startup event, one founder drove from Cincinnati to share his story about Leap — an iPhone app that after only one month in the iTunes store already has 20,000 active users. Here’s the pitch: Leap lets you challenge your friends, record points [...]
Intrapreneurship Examples: How to Launch a New Product in Under 2 Days
Time and focus are at a premium when you’re pushing to build and launch a new software product in less than two working days. But, I was lucky enough to grab a few moments with the ringleader of an ambitious entrepreneurial circus. Eric Tobias founded the Midwest-based software company iGo Digital, a product recommendation platform [...]
How SXSW Found Its Swagger in 2012 [video]
Is it just me, or was South by Southwest (SXSW) an entirely different animal this year? According to Indiana by SXSW, 112 Hoosiers trekked out to Austin, Texas this year for SXSW—the annual convergence of artists and tech weirdos. Thousands of others from the Midwest also caravanned and jetsetted their way down south to pitch [...]
Live from SXSW: Interview with Espree Devora
The Verge team is out in Austin for SXSW and we’re getting excited for the founders panel that we will be covering this Sunday at App Sumo HQ. The panel was hand-selected by a friend of mine, Espree Devora, who has a knack for connecting people and getting things done. She’s an inspiring person and [...]
How to Hack Your Workday: The Real Benefits of Outsourcing
We’ve all heard horror stories of outsourcing mishaps and virtual assistants gone wild. But, whether you’re scaling your business or bootstrapping a startup, the benefits of outsourcing jobs and small tasks can be a real game changer. For many of us, the horror stories and lack of guidance are enough to hold us back. So, [...]
The Compounding Effects of Contributing
Giving is magical. Whether it’s giving time, giving attention, or giving advice… Its astonishing effects can be seen in every aspect of life. The simple act of lending a hand is something so small and nearly effortless. But the power of consistent contribution to a common vision creates — as if from thin air — an energy and intention [...]
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