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[Interview] Zack Creed, Oakville Golf Instructor On Entrepreneurship, Career Transitions

YoungUpstarts

While working at The Hawthorns Golf & Country Club in Fishers, Indiana, Zack qualified for and played in the 2012 and 2013 Indiana Open tournaments. While working as the co-first assistant professional at the Highland Golf & Country Club in Indianapolis in 2014, he was a finalist for Indiana Professional of the Year.

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5 Strategies To Thrive In Customer-Driven Disruption

Startup Professionals Musings

Nordstrom “remembers” the sizes of customers, and Chanel follows up sales with handwritten notes from associates. Disney, for example, has managed to maintain its broad entertainment appeal by evolving from Mickey Mouse cartoons, to Old Yeller type movies, Pixar animation movies, to Star Wars and Indiana Jones.

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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. This led to iRobot’s sale of more than 4,000 PacBot robots that perform perilous missions (like bomb disposal) in support of soldiers and first responders in combat.

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Top 4 Real Estate Ventures an Entrepreneur Can Tap to Make Colossal Profits

The Startup Magazine

For instance, there are homes for sale northwest Indiana that will allow you to make a killing if you know how to approach potential clients. It is a form of conducting business that involves buying homes for sale, modernizing it, and reselling them at a higher price value. It is somewhat overwhelming but worries no more.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

My business partner, Adam Hale, and I were both in Fort Wayne, Indiana when the company was founded. In 2008, I had accumulated a large inventory of domain names and wanted to offer them for sale on my own website. It’s code and portal combined, and it just took someone close to us to. understand what we were going for.

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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. Today, advancements in technology and the lower costs of implementing them, are making it possible for manufacturing jobs to return, or stay, on local soil.

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Making Forward Partners a company we are proud of: Our culture

The Equity Kicker

Those benefits are real though, and having a great culture should be viewed as an execution challenge equivalent to having a great product or great sales and marketing. I think that’s a good process that other firms could copy, and which is explained in more detail in David’s post.

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