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Technology Association of Hamilton County to Launch

December 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The Hamilton County Alliance, the local economic development organization, is launching the Technology Association of Hamilton County. Information meetings have been held throughout the fall and the ideas/input from those meetings have been incorporated in the direction and plans for the Technology Association. 

Mark you calendars for January 19 from 7:30-9 am for the launch event. Watch for more details.

The Alliance is ecstatic about the interest and enthusiasm of the technology community in this effort and is looking forward to making the Technology Association a member-focused association. 

There are 7 peer groups identified within the Technology Association and several leaders have already stepped forward. Terri Eakins, Technology Partnership Group, Pat Chittenden, Ambrose Property Management, and Ron Brumbarger, BitWise Solutions have all agreed to lead peer groups. Members may select the peer group(s) their organization participates in.

As the Alliance prepares to launch the Technology Association in 2012, technology businesses are encouraged to join the Technology Association by the end of this year. This will position those organizations to be founding members of the Technology Association and leaders in the Association. Members will benefit from Collaboration, Strategic Intelligence, Visibility, and Talent. See the membership form for more details on each benefit area.

Click here to access the membership form. Technology Assoc Membership Form

If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact Cathy Langlois at 813-5413 or email her at cathy@goentrepreneurs.org

 

 

 

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Entrepreneurship Awards Celebration at the Monon Center

November 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Making the World a Better Place

October 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning – to create a product or service to make the world a better place.

- Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneur, investor, author

If you own your own company, you know how difficult it is to get your business off the ground. You need lots of assistance but don’t really have the funding to get it. The winner of our 2011 Community Business Plan Competition will get that assistance thanks to some outstanding companies in Central Indiana.

Our 2011 Community Business Plan Competition began last May with 10 exciting new businesses and we are down to the last few weeks with our top three finalists. The winner of the competition will receive a consulting package that will provide much needed assistance in critical areas of the business. Local companies have donated their services to the consulting package to help the winner get off a path to greater success!

Who are these companies? Check them out!  You may already know them! Perhaps you can use from their services as well.

Thanks to these companies. They have made the world a better place!

 

 

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Cyber Security for Your Company

September 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

November 10, 2011
7:30 – 9:00 a.m.

Baker & Daniels
600 E. 96th Street
Suite 600
Indianapolis, IN 46240

CEOs and senior leaders are facing growing cyber security challenges every day putting their businesses and customers at risk. Still, information technology decisions are generally made at tactical level, omitting the critical strategic and financial input needed from the top leaders.

 This strategic presentation will:

  • Identify trends that will impact information technology in the next 2 to 5 years
  • Illustrate real-life attack vectors that can damage your business’s productivity and reputation
  • Identify how leaders can make better decisions to achieve better results

Presented by Tom Rubendunst, Vice President at Central Indiana ISSA and Solution Consultant at Electronic Strategies Inc.

Click here to register today!

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Celebrating Entrepreneurship

September 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

 We believe Hamilton County is a great place to start a business. As a matter of fact, many entrepreneurs have. We hope you will join us as we celebreate the accomplishments of several of these companies at our first Entrepreneurship Celebration on October 27th from 7:30-9:00 am at the Monon Center East in Carmel.

At this community event we will recognize the achievements of innovative business owners and the positive impacts they have in our communities We will also announce the winner of the 2nd Annual Community Business Plan Competition at the event.

John Wechsler is the featured speaker for the Entrepreneurship Celebration breakfast. John is a Partner at DeveloperTown, an Indianapolis-baed venture development firm. He works with high-potential ventures on business strategy issues, early customer development, sales, marketing, business development and fundraising.

You are invited to show your support by becoming an awards breakfast sponsor. This is an excellent opportunity to not only show your support of the finalist but also to gain recognition for your role in the success of the finalist.

 We hope you will support your friends and associates at our awards breakfast. 

Click here to learn more and to register.

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Stratosphere Quality Receives Honda Award

August 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Congratulations to Stratosphere Quality located in Fishers!

Acknowledging its strong network of 5,000 Maintenance, Repair and Operational (MRO) suppliers, Honda is awarding Stratosphere Quality the MRO Supplier of the Year Award in the Industrial Services category.  The coveted distinction is awarded to top companies in their business category that support Honda’s automobile manufacturing in Ohio and Indiana.  Stratosphere Quality is one of eleven suppliers recognized for the MRO Supplier of the Year Award in 2011. 

Honda will present the award to Stratosphere Quality at their Fishers, IN facility on August 25th, 2011. 

Stratosphere Quality is a leading provider of quality assurance and outsourcing solutions, including sorting and inspection services, to manufacturers of parts and components in the automotive, medical device, electronics, home appliance and recreational vehicle industries. As a partner in quality, Stratosphere Quality helps suppliers and OEMs identify the root cause of quality problems, minimize defects, improve quality, increase efficiency and reduce costs associated with quality issues. Headquartered just northeast of Indianapolis, Indiana, Stratosphere Quality services manufacturers across the US and Ontario.

 


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Focus on Entrepreneurship

May 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By Frank Howard, L5 Solutions
EAC Board Member

For those of you who have not taken the opportunity to visit the home page of the EAC, it lists the following beliefs that are core to the organization:

  • Entrepreneurship is the economic engine of our economy.
  • Entrepreneurial education is a lifelong learning process, starting at elementary school and progressing through adulthood.
  • The right support, provided at the right time, will empower individuals to choose an entrepreneurial path that will culminate in innovative, sustainable businesses that create jobs and build a healthy economy.
  • Supporting entrepreneurial businesses will create an economically vibrant community.

Fortunately, we are not alone in these beliefs. Effective July 1st, the state of Indiana now has a “Young Entrepreneurs Program” that was recently signed into law. It establishes a program that focuses on community economic growth while providing entrepreneurs from state educational institutions an opportunity to start a business in Indiana. Details can be found in House Bill 1251. In summary, it provides a program through the IEDC where at least once a year there is an auction where communities can bid on businesses/startups that have gone through the application process and met certain requirements. The selected bid is legally binding between the two parties.

What do you think about this program, its goals, and possible success? Does it conjure images for you as it did me… a version of the TV program “Shark Tank” with Indianapolis Mayor Ballard sitting next to Carmel Mayor Brainard talking trash about why their deal is a better one for the home grown Indiana entrepreneur.

Like all ideas, the difficulty is in the execution. Regardless of the program’s success, I am excited that we are not alone. We are fortunate enough to live in a state that sees the value of entrepreneurship and makes it a focus of our state’s economic development.

To learn more about this bill see the following state website links:

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EAC and 2010 Biz Plan Winner Featured in IBJ Article

April 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Hamilton County resource center aids entrepreneurs of all ages

Spun off from the Hamilton County Alliance as a separate not-for-profit in early 2010, the Entrepreneurship Advancement Center offers assistance to county residents who aspire to own a business. Read more…

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Exhausted from Fatigue

January 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By Terry Anker 

It seems we are all talking about the economy — or at least blaming it — more than ever.  And that’s certainly understandable.  It is one of the rare entities in which we all participate.  Whether we are employed or unemployed, rich or poor, young or old, or anything in between, we are all participants in the economy.  Manipulated by government oversight or left unfettered, the way in which we build, accumulate and distribute resources (the Economy) has a profound impact on the way that we see ourselves and others.

 The last two decades or so I’ve spent a good part of my life in the business of sponsoring new companies — or rescuing old ones — as they venture off to find their way in the world.  Routinely, people ask for the magic formula to success in startups.  I wish I had it.  Sometimes it is an especially important or impressive idea.  Sometimes it is an especially important or impressive individual.  But in each successful startup, there are common denominators.  One is an enormous passion for success — or least, a healthy fear of failure.  Another is a dauntless mindset about achieving outcomes (regardless of how that is defined).

 There are many dangers that are likewise common to all fledgling enterprises.  Certainly a lack of capital or vision or responsiveness or talent all come to mind.  But let me add to that list, fatigue.  Successful startups are the ones that persevere without exhaustion.  It is no simpler or more difficult for a particular successful entrepreneur than a failed one; but the successful somehow pushed off fatigue, until her objectives were met.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, we have nothing to fear but fear itself.  Certainly he did not intend that we should not fear the impressive Nazi war machine.  I think it might be an appropriate interpretation to say we shouldn’t give up the fight until we’ve fought it.  Entrepreneurs achieve success by running through the finish line, not by losing confidence in the 23rd mile.

Reprinted with permission from Current Publishing, LLC

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