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

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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. Take advantage of opportunity especially when you are young, without the responsibilities of a family and mobile.

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5 Companies That Could Become The Next Apple

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As impressive as Apple’s revenue growth is, there are five companies expected to become the next Apple in the near future: Skyworks Solutions Success With IoT, Mobile Payments and Connectivity. The Skyworks Solutions growth is largely due to its key involvement in IoT, payments on mobile devices, and Internet connectivity.

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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

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Currently available in Dallas, Indianapolis, St. Requirements: You must be a safe driver, not afraid to put miles on your ride and an iPhone or Android in order to use the Lyft mobile app. An on-demand mobile marketplace allowing busy people to outsource their errands and tasks for a fee. Task Rabbit.

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4 Ways To Solve The Employee Engagement Problem With Mobile

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But it was when I truly leaned in to our own value proposition, and trusted our internal staff, that I discovered the value of a mobile-first employee engagement strategy. While most internal teams tasked with such a job would plan a team outing or group activity, ours came up with the idea to launch an internal mobile application.

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CoatChex – Changing The Bailment Industry With QR Codes

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That’s essentially how Indianapolis-based startup, CoatChex , started. Its Digital CoatChex System is a mobile coat check-in system complete with racks that uses QR code technology – each coat is matched with a hanger using a QR code, collecting information such as phone numbers and names into its system.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Of course most of you know SnapChat, Tinder & Whisper and many people immediately associate the success of Los Angeles under the SoLoMo banner (Social, Local, Mobile) and you wouldn’t be wrong. Deflationary Economics now favors us. I think it’s the era of the application.

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Grocery’s True Competition

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The fast-food industry rakes in over $100 billion in dinner sales each year, but if grocery retailers could harness mobile commerce and build a well-oiled execution system, they could pull around 10 to 20 percent of those sales into their space.