Timothy Whicker, Electric Plus, Danville, Indiana. Ohio's Victoria Tifft was named the 2012 Small Business Person of the Year, but there were 51 other nominees. Here are 10 more stories of great entrepreneurs--and how they did it. Some of the most impressive parts of National Small Business Week in Washington, D.C., That's a great honor.

After one of the prettiest drives you can imagine through southern Indiana east into Ohio, I find myself this morning in the very urban, once blighted, “Over-The-Rhine” neighbourhood of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Ohio — Wednesday May 9, Gonzeaux #3. This is clearly an Ohio innovation success story, in more ways than one.

Bloomington, Indiana, Tuesday May 8, Gonzeaux #2. Indiana is the state of Nick Tippmann. The future of Indiana Innovation that’s who (and not Bobby Knight). More on Nick and Bobby below, but first, Observations: Indiana is very flat. How many state cops does Indiana employ? Who’s Nick Tippmann? Mercy!

do have piles of stuff to take: KILN IdeaKeg boxes , large mural paper, Post-it’s, iPad, iPod, Garmin, pocket knives, sunflower seeds, water, dirty bucks, and an Indiana brand guitar in a battered case. And Gotto go Gonzeaux now, more later, on the Innovation in the State of Indiana. And a black leather motorcycle jacket.

Indiana – May 7, 8 (Indianapolis). I’ve decided to take the battle of Doing Innovation to the streets. Literally. Okay, it’s not a battle, it’s a conversation, but it’s definitely a road trip, and definitely about the Doing. And online? hope to talk to start-ups, small businesses, and large companies.

went to Indiana University and got my M.B.A. The iconic luggage brand is going public at $18 a share. Here's how Charlie Clifford parlayed his love of Peruvian crafts into one of the globe's top luggage brands. Update: The iconic luggage brand Tumi begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday. billion. magazine. That was in 1974.

And Courseload, the Indiana-based digital-textbook enterprise. Nick DeSantis of the Chronicle of Higher Education writes about the incredible surge in investing in education technology start-ups. While people in the article claim ‘this time is different, I am not so sure. There’s the Coursebook, a young online-learning start-up.

and also some smaller American companies, including Econar, based in Minnesota; WaterFurnace, in Indiana; and Advanced Geothermal Technology, in Pennsylvania. Change or Die Terry Swain needed to find new ways to use his equipment, his people, his know how. The Sharp End a 9-inch roller cone bit. Good until you hit bedrock.'> Here's how.

Daring Feat Brothers David and Billy Werth work together at Indiana's Grayout Aerosports, where they teach and perform airplane aerobatics. GoPro's line of tiny, popular, and affordable HD video cameras has turned a generation of extreme sports enthusiasts into cutting-edge filmmakers--and loyal customers. sampling of the highlights. Oh Deer!

Even as it is, it's possible it could get pulled given George Lucas's notoriously tight hold over the Star Wars franchise, but I'm guessing he'll be won over right about the time he sees Indiana Jones flying the Millenium Falcon. I came across this on the Facebook or the interwebs somewhere. At first it seemed gimmicky. Pump up the volume

The Zappos breach could result in attacks on customers not only now but also months down the road, Fred Cate , director of the Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, told ZDNET. The hackers didn't get credit card information but what they did get is potentially more dangerous. Don't let it happen to your business.

These high-profile founders served as inspiration for other would-be entrepreneurs, including three former high school buddies from central Indiana. Industry leaders may be intuitive, innovative, and able to handle risks, but real success requires them to be mature. In every new sector of the tech world, a company emerges as the leader.

Abraham Lincoln was once asked about ethics and he quoted an old man he had once heard speak at a church meeting in Indiana. You can resolve any ethics dilemma you face by running through this series of questions"and only one of them really matters. ’ There is only ethics.” Is it legal? How will it make you feel about yourself?

At the same time, the Sacramento Kings and Indiana Pacers couldn’t even break 14,000. Professional basketball is run by smart businesspeople. So why do they think they're exempt from the law of supply and demand? This isn’t so. Sports leagues can have excess capacity just like any other business. tax law look easy. How complex?

Located in Crown Point, Indiana, Hoosier Cupcake? offers a decadent and delicious assortment of cupcakes ranging from the Vixen to the Tinsel Town to the Fighting Irish! . Hoosier Cupcake? is offering $2 off delivery on Small Business Saturday. Check out their mouthwatering selection at  www.hoosiercupcake.com. Business Planning

The HR department at Indiana University suggests a helpful list of factors to consider: Are there behaviors that are expected in your department to promote teamwork, leadership, creativity, customer service? by Lior Levin. How does a company set up performance standards for new hires and effectively communicate them? On the Job Training.

Since Apple introduced the Siri personal assistant with the new iPhone 4S I have read several blogs how much better it is compared to Google Voice Search or to GPS and other voice recognition products. How about compared to IBM. Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP

The Whiting, Indiana-based company's spin on the standard coupon model is that it verifies—and then continues to update—whether an offer still works. The company was founded in Chicago but recently moved to Indiana after the state of Illinois toughened laws on collecting sales tax from online merchants. They're here too.

High school in London and CT, college in LA, China, and Cambridge, banker in NYC, HK, and Singapore, teacher in Indiana, business school student in Chicago, and the last twelve years in venture capital and start-ups. Today, I am 40. write this from a small village in Baja, where I am celebrating the milestone with my wife and best friends.

One of the applicants that didn't make the initial cut and is re-applying is Intellitek Systems in Fort Wayne, Indiana; operating at break even with five employees selling SMB ERP packaged software. A new program that began earlier this year is looking for five IT-centric entrepreneurs to receive seed funds along with a series of services.

If public sector pension plans earn 8% on their investments, four states - Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana - are predicted will run out of assets to pay retirees by the end of the decade. credit: Marion Siegel Yes, cultural. because when school funding gets cut, arts get squeezed and libraries close, our whole culture suffers.

Purdue University; University of California, Los Angeles; University of Toronto; Arizona State University; Indiana University; Marietta College; University. NetSuite has announced that thirteen North American university accounting programs have adopted its software as a key component of their degree curricula. Industry Commentary

Does the low rate of licensing in Indiana make it a dangerous state? but Indiana has them on just 11 percent of jobs. I had a chance to speak at a meeting of the National League of Cities yesterday, and the audience was very receptive to the entrepreneurship message. Hardly. An instant classic. link].

mean, this is a star talent that has impressed the likes of Usher, and he's doing small shows at middle schools in urban Indiana. If you would have told me I was going to spend last night watching the Justin Bieber documentary film "Never Say Never," I would have said you were crazy. This is a truly amazing negotiating tactic of hers. Not so.

Driving through Iowa, Indiana or southern Illinois, they’re pretty hard to miss towering and turning on the horizon. Being from the Midwest, I’m pretty familiar with wind mills.  In contrast, the only solar panel I’ve seen in real life was in Forest City, Iowa, a town I’d be hard-pressed to find a handful of people who have heard of it.

On the New Florence blog John Deere’s FarmSight Virgin Galactic seeking pilot-astronauts Mattel games and brain-machine interfaces Hamilton County, Indiana next-gen 911 Lexmark Genesis – printer for our social, mobile, cloud times. Innovative Business Uses of Technology

Curt is a professor of education at Indiana University, where I went for undergrad. The Startup Cafe Get Covered! LA Jobs LA Events Academy The home for Los Angeles startups and entrepreneurs. like to call Andy my hacker sensei, startup advisor and happily, boyfriend as well. Eight years is a long time! The code needed to be more efficient.

Indiana’s Kelley School of Business has entered the social entrepreneurship space, focusing on undergraduates. via Kelley Institute for Social Impact supports increasing business student interest in engagement: IU News Room: Indiana University. “They see that they can work for a for-profit business and still do good.&#.

You can outsource your development to India, the Ukraine, Buenas Aires, or even Indiana. That's right--Indiana. It has never been so easy to get a startup up and off the ground these days. Scaling and succeeding is hard, but just to get from napkin to prototype and some users is so much less of a hurdle than it was previously. Really?

Indiana-based ChaCha has raised $75 million form investors including from an investor pool including Qualcomm Ventures, Rho Capital Ventures, and VantagePoint Venture Partners. By Erin Griffith, Contributing Editor. You could call Stack Overflow a glorified message board. The company also counts Clay Shirky and Anil Dash among its advisors.

More white papers » Intel and VMware help Indiana University Virtualize Enterprise Applications Twitter Buzz Follow @IntelXeon on Twitter Follow @VMware on Twitter Follow @vCloud on Twitter Follow the latest industry discussion here. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Developer Regan Wolfrom wrote the post. What do you think?

Abby and I met at Indiana University, the heart of Mellencamp land, when he was at the height of his commercial career. . The other day I posted the below at my more personal online home. Abby, my wife, said it fitted within the scope of FoG and needed to be here. So here it is. It was a birthday present for Abby. Personal

Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Kelley School of Business offer a Social Entrepreneurship certificate program. Rolfe Larson offers a nice sampling of graduate school programs in the U.S. focused on social entrepreneurship or social innovation. Details at [link]. Details [link]. Details at: [link].

Here in Indiana we have a really cool program called the Orr Fellowship. The point is to get the best and the brightest students, who are already in Indiana, to get engaged with the most promising companies in the state and thus keep them here. We take a break from our regular posts to get on my soapbox about the Orr Fellowship.

Main Street Venture Fund LLC, an angel fund of about 25 private investors, was formed by Ruffolo Benson LLC in northeast Indiana with the intention of bringing together area entrepreneurs and private investors to create economic value for the region. By Joseph A. Professional angel investing takes time, knowledge, skills and resources.

This directory was created by New York-based digital agency Kettle , “because it’s easier for Indiana Jones to recover the Sankara Stones than for someone with an idea for an app to find a decent app developer,&# according to the site’s creators. Google’s App Inventor is a good example of a DIY tool. Go ahead and DIY.

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. When we see entrepreneurs come up with great ideas (and we see many), we hope that they also remember that while an idea is key, it won’t go anywhere without the right team in place. Find your forward and your point guard.

Baby blue: Indiana University. So my friend Russell Jurney , who is an analytics architect at LinkedIn, sent me my LinkedIn social graph. It's pretty cool. According to Russell the colors represent clusters of well-connected people. Bondi blue: CipherTrust. Green: Up and coming social/startup crowd. Light orange: Kelley School of Business.

WORK AT A STARTUP - Out of college I was selected as part of an Entrepreneurial Fellowship in Indiana where promising graduates were placed at some of the fastest growing startups. just need to find a technical co-founder.&# I’ve heard that too many times over the last few years and it almost always ends badly. Have Experience.

3) Indiana University — Bloomington. Here are the top 10 undergraduate entrepreneurship programs for 2010 according to US News and World Report: 1) Babson College. 2) University of Pennsylvania. 4) University of Southern California. 5) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 6) University of Arizona. 9) Syracuse University.

Take the example of Indianas Passageways. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. Take the example of Indianas Passageways. Ive quoted from the article extensively below, but I hope youll take a moment and read the whole thing. Thanks!

Fortune named their Top 5 schools for entrepreneurship : Babson College Indiana University University of Texas St. Louis University Belmont University -- How about that!!

He gave me the opportunity to answer questions about our proposal, and share the stories of immigrant entrepreneurs who are creating job all over America, including the Senators home state of Indiana. This follows Congressman Jared Polis, who has introduced a similar bill as part of comprehensive immigration reform in the House. Expo SF (May.