The 2018 Indiana Venture Report from Elevate Ventures offers an insightful overview of the venture capital landscape in our state. Bottom line: There is improvement in some areas, but still a great deal of work to do. That may be a similar conclusion to recent sentiments, but the Elevate team backs it up with some numbers and analysis. The closing [...]
You talked, we listened! The Indiana Chamber is offering new employee training tracks on leadership and soft skills in 2019. The ADVANCE Leadership Series goes in-depth in areas such as emotional intelligence, productive conflict, supervising and managing and more. The BOOST series, which is still under development, will focus on workplace soft skills, created specifically to meet the feedback [...]
(via Third Way) Suppose colleges performed as well as high schools. That’s right: high schools. According to our estimates based on federal data, just 57% of students who start two- and four-year colleges graduate. Students who take out loans to attend college but never finish are three times as likely to default, earn lower incomes throughout their lives, and [...]
*Editor’s note: The Indiana Chamber of Commerce proudly supports Indiana men and women serving in the military. This blog originally appeared here. By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Theodore Quintana, Navy Office of Community Outreach As citizens of Greenwood go about their daily lives, members of the U.S. Navy’s “Silent Service” work beneath the ocean’s waves, continuing a tradition that [...]
Family Counseling Associates — a 25-year-old practice helping clients with psychological and relationship needs — is in a new and larger building in northeast Indianapolis. One of its 16 counselors and therapists, Whitni Buckles, Ph.D., bought the practice last spring. More recently, Dr. Buckles received a loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration 504 program to help buy the [...]
OneAmerica® attributes another double-digit sales growth year from its employee benefits (EB) division to an improved office culture that emphasizes shared success and celebration. The resulting increase in job satisfaction has benefited the bottom line while also producing better results for brokers and policyholders. “Our internal studies show you can’t truly enjoy success by paying mere lip service to [...]
National Office Furniture, a unit of Kimball International, Inc., announces the addition of new products to their CET Extension. National’s extension now contains their complete product offering and newest product additions. In conjunction with launching new products, the extension has also been updated with new Smart Symbols. Now available, the entire WaveWorks casegoods offering features Smart Symbol capabilities, which [...]
If you're an experienced investor who wishes to be part of a team doing just that, you might want to know about Gravity Ventures. If you are operating an early stage tech or tech-enabled business, Gravity Ventures might be able to offer valuable seed funding and management assistance. Mike Fitzgerald and Kristian Anderson, now partners at High Alpha, launched [...]
(INDIANAPOLIS) — Chamber President and CEO Kevin Brinegar comments on House action on Senate Bill 198: “While not the perfect process or the perfect bill, House efforts on a bias crimes statute are a positive step in the right direction. The legislation appears to remove Indiana from the list of five states without a bias/hate crimes law. It is [...]
Michael E. Schrage, President and CEO of Centier Bank, is pleased to announce the appointment of Tony Hobbs as Mortgage Loan Originator serving Greater Indianapolis out of the bank’s Zionsville branch. Hobbs joins Centier with over 25 years of mortgage and banking experience, primarily as a loan originator. He is a graduate of Mississippi Valley State University and an [...]
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