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ReturnShip Program, Part III

OnlyOnce

I’ve written a couple times this past year about our ReturnShip program, which is a 4-month paid internship program designed for women who have been out of the workforce for more than 3 year to re-enter and build credible and relevant experience, and to expand the talent pool for our organization.

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The Top Nine Challenges Of Growing an Entrepreneurial Business And How To Tackle Them

YoungUpstarts

I recently studied 54 high-growth entrepreneurial companies based in 23 different states, all of which were designated as successful growth companies by leading magazines or accounting firms. Hiring smart. Hiring mistakes are costly, time consuming, and create quality and financial control risks for small businesses.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Indianapolis, IN. Portland, OR.

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3 IT Bottlenecks You Can Start Tackling Today

YoungUpstarts

For example, a hiring request might require approval from the CEO, HR, and finance before a job can be posted. And a piece of marketing content might require approval from a copy manager, a design manager, and a marketing VP before it can be published. If anyone involved in these approval processes falls behind, bottlenecks occur.

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The Ultimate Ranking Recipe: Content, Links & The Power of Persuasion

Duct Tape Marketing

My guest today is Tim Brown Hook Agency, a Google paid ads, SEO and web design firm that focuses primarily on roofing companies, HVAC, companies and home services businesses. So if they're a roofing company or an HVAC company or plumbing company, plumbing plus Indianapolis, we need those pages and all the suburb pages around them.

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Eight Ways To Fight Entrepreneurial Fires And Constantly Improve In The Process

YoungUpstarts

I learned this lesson from Dave Lindsey, a successful entrepreneur and founder of Defender Direct in Indianapolis. The study was designed to illuminate the common challenges entrepreneurs faced as they pursued growth after surviving the start-up phase. Do so and you’ll turn each one of them into an opportunity to improve.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

20 years ago could you have imagined ExactTarget becoming a multi-billion company in Indianapolis? Cincinnati has had the accelerator The Brandery for several years, which caters to the great strengths of design and brand management that are dominant in this city. Or the growth of Dwolla in Iowa or C2FO being built in Kansas City?