Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2025

Give First Fireside Chat w/ Brad Feld For the past two days, I was in Indianapolis at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2025. I’ve got a handful of events left in Boulder before Amy and I head to Aspen for the summer. The last time I was at GEC was in Rio de Janeiro in 2013.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

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. While working at The Hawthorns Golf & Country Club in Fishers, Indiana, Zack qualified for and played in the 2012 and 2013 Indiana Open tournaments.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Same-day delivery has been so successful that Amazon decided to expand this program in other major cities, such as San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle-Tacoma, Phoenix, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago, Indianapolis, Washington DC, Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Tampa Bay, and Atlanta.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 3, 2025

I’m currently at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2025 in Indianapolis. Yesterday, at the end of the day, I spent several hours at High Alpha hanging out with my friends and then doing a Give First: The Power of Mentorship book event with them and about 150 people.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2016

They set up the billboard during the final four NCAA college basketball game in Indianapolis. During the release cycle, your business should do something fun or creative, such as uploading a funny video, creating an infographic, executing a stunt around an industry event, and publishing a survey.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of the 23 funds listed here, 13 are in the Bay Area, 3 in NYC, 3 in Boston, 2 in LA, and one each in Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Waterloo, Indianapolis, and Fargo, North Dakota. This is a very clever way of helping new funds get their footing and hearing about what is working before others may pick up the scent. Global and Local.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2013

Michael Reynolds is President/CEO of SpinWeb – a digital agency located in Indianapolis, IN. If you see opportunities to tweak, go for it… but always measure and tune. What are some ways you check the “finished” box for your inbound marketing campaigns?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2012

That’s essentially how Indianapolis-based startup, CoatChex , started. But for 23-year old Derek Pacqué, who went through that exact experience, instead had an “Eureka!” ” moment. Why couldn’t there be an easy way for bars, events and other venues to offer a reliable coat check service?

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 19, 2015

We are going to place Returnees in five locations – Broomfield, Colorado, New York City, Austin, Indianapolis, and London – and we recruited five like-minded partner companies to join the program as well. We will have almost 40 Returnees in the program – but we’ve taken the program beyond Return Path and beyond our Colorado office.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Indianapolis, IN. Here are some additional U.S. cities that you should keep in mind as some of the best cities for startups and entrepreneurs: St. Minneapolis, MN. San Jose, CA. San Diego, CA. Columbus, OH. Nashville, TN. Portland, OR. Pittsburgh, PA. Atlanta, GA. Houston, TX. Enlist crowdspring’s help!

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2013

by Eva McKnight, Formstack Santiago Jaramillo is the CEO of Bluebridge Digital , an Indianapolis startup that specializes in app development and maintenance for clients who may currently be underrepresented in the mobile market. This article was contributed by Eva McKnight (@evachristine09) of Formstack.

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Argona

JANUARY 15, 2024

The company is located in Indianapolis, USA, and serves clients locally and internationally. GoodFirms has recognized ,, Argona Partners for its unmatched experience and specialized skills that put the company as one of the top industry leaders through the Leaders Matrix program and has been identified as the “Best Company to Work With.”

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2019

We are investors in PSL (in Seattle) and High Alpha (in Indianapolis). As with the expansion of Techstars Accelerators around the world (Techstars will run 41 accelerator programs in 31 cities and 11 countries in 2019), expect Techstars Studios to follow a similar expansion path. At Foundry, we have a lot of experience with the Studio model.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Indianapolis’ startup community, like Atlanta’s, is thriving. There’s no question in my mind that Scott’s leadership has contributed to this in a meaningful way.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

20 years ago could you have imagined ExactTarget becoming a multi-billion company in Indianapolis? Or the growth of Dwolla in Iowa or C2FO being built in Kansas City? Welcome to the future. What Does a City Need to Compete?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2020

“Put on The Anthropocene Reviewed Scratch ‘n’ Sniff Stickers and the Indianapolis 500.” ” I responded, “The what what?” ” Amy said, “Put some music on.” ” Ben tried again. ” 15 minutes later Amy said, “Not bad” and I was hooked.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 21, 2024

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. But it's a matter of getting those pieces of content out there and then links from other websites. I mean, they don't know what that means half the time.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2018

According to experts at Indianapolis Check Into Cash , more and more people are now waking up to the benefits of payday loans, but still some are not aware of the concept. However, they’re given less value only because of the fact that people take them for the wrong needs.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Chris Byers is the CEO of Formstack , an Indianapolis-based company offering an online form and data-collection platform. If it would help to have a more standardized system that sends automatic email notifications and documents approval progress, use a data management tool with approval functionality.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2022

Emily is a graduate of Butler University and earned her Master of Business Administration from University of Indianapolis where she currently teaches undergraduate marketing courses. More from Emily Heck: LinkedIn. Evergreen Strategic Communications.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 18, 2014

In Kurt Vonnegut’s list of rules for writing with style , he explains how much better his writing is when it sounds the way he talks: I myself find that I trust my own writing most, and others seem to trust it most, too, when I sound most like a person from Indianapolis, which is what I am.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2017

Early successes segued seamlessly into a major expansion, most notably a planned urban development of 600 acres north of Indianapolis, IN, along with a 3-block stretch of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, CA.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Ashley Walsh has worked in multiple areas of the B2B marketing sector and is currently the Director of Marketing for Formstack , an online form building solution based in Indianapolis.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2017

Ashley Walsh has worked in multiple areas of the B2B marketing sector and is currently the Director of Marketing for Formstack , an online form building solution based in Indianapolis.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 28, 2016

An avid craft beer enthusiast, Hershberger also co-founded Indianapolis-based Flat12 Bierwerks in 2009. Prior SteadyServ, Hershberger co-founded and ran marketing agency Comblu, where he used his data analytics skills to build solutions that gave clients accurate metrics regarding word of mouth and ROI.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2016

Gerry Hays is the founder and CEO of DinnerCall , a public benefit corporation founded in 2015 out of Indianapolis. But it’s now time for them to truly thrive in what they do best — and they can if they nail down their real competitors and beat them at their own game.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Gerry Hays is the founder and CEO of DinnerCall , a public benefit corporation founded in 2015 out of Indianapolis. With your vision laser-focused on goals, success is much more attainable. DinnerCall will eventually serve as a mobile commerce platform for providing consumers with affordable, convenient and healthy meals.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Gerry Hays is the founder and CEO of DinnerCall , a public benefit corporation founded in 2015 out of Indianapolis. Even if you’re not taking on full-time stay-at-home dad duties àla famous TV fathers Joel Graham or Cameron Tucker, that doesn’t mean you can’t apply these practices to embrace your role and become effective in whatever you do.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Santiago Jaramillo is the CEO of Bluebridge Digital , an Indianapolis startup that specializes in app development and maintenance for clients who may currently be underrepresented in the mobile market. I believe engaging employees by meeting them where they are, on their mobile device, will be key to employee engagement for years to come.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 6, 2018

Of the 23 funds listed here, 13 are in the Bay Area, 3 in NYC, 3 in Boston, 2 in LA, and one each in Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Waterloo, Indianapolis, and Fargo, North Dakota. This is a very clever way of helping new funds get their footing and hearing about what is working before others may pick up the scent.”.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 1, 2012

Indiana – May 7, 8 (Indianapolis). I’m starting in Three Oaks, Michigan, so, the states I’ll be “covering” will include, at least, and on these approx dates: Michigan – leaving here May 7. Ohio – May 9 (Cincinnati). Kentucky – May 10 (Louisville). Tennessee – May 11 (Nashville).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2019

We were lined up together, four jets on the runway packing 128,000 pounds of thrust, and we carried more horsepower than the entire starting lineup of the Indianapolis 500. On engine start, I felt the familiar rumble of the turbines spooling up.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

BECOME A KEY MEMBER OF THE TECH COMMUNITY - About this time, I decided to help organize Hackers and Founders Indianapolis. In hindsight, the $3,000 we spent basically served to keep us busy while we continued to search for a co-founder. Before that, there wasn't a place for entrepreneurs to meet hackers and vice versa.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The company, based in Indianapolis, recently received $8 million in financing led by the Simon Venture Group. SmarterHQ, an online marketing platform, announced this week the opening of its new office in Austin. The five year old startup has raised $20 million to date.

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The Startup Lawyer

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The winning team from Dallas will go head-to-head against the winning teams from Beirut, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, New York, Portland, Seattle, Sofia, and Tulsa. Startup Weekend Dallas is now a true global startup battle.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Mollie Kuramoto is the Content Marketing Specialist for Element Three , an Indianapolis-based full-service marketing agency that works across channels to build discernible brands. And once you can answer those questions, ensuring consistency in message and tone will go a long way. Your brand is more than a tagline. Don’t neglect it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2019

There’s a restaurant in Indianapolis, St. It’s not just the restaurant you’d like to be if you were in that business in Indianapolis. Elmo’s in Indianapolis, it’s a restaurant. I looked at how he became iconic as a chimney sweep. Elmo’s, that I use as an example. Scott McKain: Quick example.

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