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Seniors are nation's fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs

For four decades, Jim Ashby worked as a manufacturing floor manager, first for General Motors Corp., then, after a buyout, for an Ingersoll Rand subsidiary. He likes to relax and fish, but Ashby...

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Fishers biz grows from dog-walking to full-service pet care

Cristi Melson started Purrs & Gurrs 2-1/2 years ago with an idea and some fliers she distributed door to door. She didn’t have a formal business plan then and still doesn’t.

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Real estate firm launches in rough waters

Business partners Dan Adams and Bob Harton left a real estate franchise to start an agency of their own.

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Website aims to help grads with life after college

Partners Cate McLaughlin and Kyle Falk started the website askcateandkyle.com last July to help recent graduates deal with the trials and tribulations of life after college. Their potential audience is...

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Business Ownership Initiative hires executive director

Julie Grice, a 10-year veteran of the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and former business owner, began her tenure as executive director of the not-for-profit Business Ownership Initiative of...

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Law student taps connections for shoe startup

Arsene Millogo is sitting out the current semester at IU School of Law-Indianapolis to work on his own line of running shoes, a startup he and three friends financed with more than $50,000 of their own...

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Kitchen incubator celebrates graduation of first user

Avec Moi, a company that prepares meals to go, is moving to a permanent home at 701 E. 62nd St. In recognition of the event, the city of Indianapolis awarded Indy's Kitchen a $17,000 grant.

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Global micro lender Grameen ramps up in Indianapolis

Low-income women could receive loans in weeks.

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Satellite training sites give entrepreneurship agency a boost

Participation at Business Ownership Initiative-led training sessions is up nearly 30 percent so far this year as more Hoosiers start businesses of their own. Executive Director Julie Grice is looking...

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Not-for-profit hoping to grow microloan program

Small amounts of funding often ignored by larger banks.

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Small businesses share space to find efficiencies

Popular waxing spa The Naked Monkey is set to open its third location Nov. 1—a “Mini Monkey” inside MDG Salon | Studio’s new space downtown. The independent businesses are sharing space to cut costs.

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Chamber's microloan program swells to $2M after grant

Business Ownership Initiative, a unit of the Indy Chamber, launched its microloan fund last September to help small business owners in Indianapolis.

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Surge in craft breweries strains hops supply

Hops, used as a flavoring agent, are in high demand by microbreweries that need the crop to give their pale ales and other varieties more taste than what’s found in traditional mass-market beers.

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Family peanut-butter venture sees sales take off

B. Happy Peanut Butter is a hit at the summer market—and then some. Available at more than a dozen retail outlets in central Indiana, its seven varieties of hand-packed PB could produce sales of...

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Entrepreneur to offer home brewing minus the hassle

The cost, time and mess that come with brewing beer at home scares a lot of beer connoisseurs, but a Greenwood health care executive thinks he has the answer.

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Fix-it man keeps typewriters clacking

Terry Vorten witnessed firsthand the death throes of a once-world-beating analog technology—the typewriter. Its destruction turned his lucrative profession repairing the machines into an anachronistic...

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Indy Chamber beefs up its microlending territory

The U.S. Small Business Administration blessed the Chamber's microlending division with a new designation, giving it more cash to deploy and a bigger geographical footprint.

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What did you do this weekend?

Dozens of enterprising entrepreneurs spent 54 hours planning new businesses as part of Startup Weekend Indianapolis.

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Small loans for small businesses

Business Ownership of Indiana is ramping up its micro-lending program, awarding a $10,000 loan to Indianapolis-based Stage Ninja LLC. Can such small amounts make a difference to fledgling firms?

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PitchFeast helps grassroots entrepreneurs turn business ideas into reality

The PitchFeast crowd votes on the best pitch, and the winner gets 75 percent of admission proceeds plus pro bono business services.

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New Broad Ripple co-working space set to open next month

The Hatch plans to target creative types with its art studios, recording booths, green screens and more. It's slated to open in early August.

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Microloans make the difference for small businesses

Dozens of small businesses have been helped by microloans—smaller than $50,000—from the Indy Chamber’s Business Ownership Initiative.

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Indiana IoT Lab in Fishers helps small tech firms think big

The new tech venue in Fishers gives companies that specialize in connecting devices to the internet the access they need to hardware, talent and capital.

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Q&A: ‘Heart mission’ is growing business

For the past seven years, Darla Hall has been in the business of making sports-themed coloring and activity books and storybooks for children, as well as coloring books for adults.

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