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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

An engineering services firm, TRISTAR is the first woman and minority-owned firm based in Indiana to offer the Department of Defense (DoD) technical support services. It has grown from five employees generating $120,000 in annual revenue to 350 employees generating annual revenues of $16.5 TRISTAR — Engineering its own success.

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Pay Your Payroll Tax With R&D Credits

YoungUpstarts

However, all businesses with employees must pay payroll taxes (approximately 7.65% on gross wages paid by the business). He has an Electrical Engineering degree from Purdue University and an MBA from Indiana University — Kelley School of Business.

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How To Create And Communicate Performance Standards In Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

When new employees are able to become productive team members, your company receives the best return on its investment in personnel. While managers and executives will need to have concrete standards and measures in mind for a particular job, the most effective performance standards should be developed alongside new employees.

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Why You Should Run Your City Like A Startup

YoungUpstarts

By Scott Fadness, Mayor of Fishers, Indiana. As a leader, you can’t move quickly and easily if your employees depend on you for every decision that has to be made. As the first Mayor of Fishers, Indiana , Scott Fadness is committed to seeing it become a smart, vibrant, entrepreneurial city. 90 percent of startups fail.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

Mark has been at the forefront of providing job stability and funding for his own employees and the networks that support them during the pandemic. It's never selfish to try to do the right thing for your employees, your customers, and your stakeholders." Since then he's been starting and investing in companies in a number of arenas.

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How Robots Are Revolutionizing the Manufacturing Industry (and saving jobs!)

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Task Force Tips, a fire hose nozzle manufacturer in Valparaiso, Indiana is an example of a local factory that is growing thanks to robotics. The industry has struggled between trying to balance technology, automation and the larger workforces that companies overseas could employee due to significantly lower wages.

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Podcast on the future of VC and how mindfulness can help founders

The Equity Kicker

He explains why they chose Indiana Jones, Yoda, and Leonardo Da Vinci as the three individuals who capture what they want to be at Forward. There was a biotech company that ran an 8-week mindfulness course for their employees. Small Improvements — Help your employees grow and succeed. Nic’s introduction to mindfulness. “It

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