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Excerpt “Report shows business growth, but more work needed Women will lead the way in economic growth – if their recent track record as bosses is an indicator. Consider these statistics covering the past five years for women-owned businesses: • Their overall...
$3 Million for High Tech, Small Business Focused Accelerators in 2019 For the fifth year, the U.S. Small Business Administration launched the Growth Accelerator Fund competition for the nation’s most innovative and promising small business accelerators and...
Excerpt One in five American adults experienced a poor mental health condition in the past year. In our lifetime, that number will increase to one in two – half the population, according to LookUp Indiana. Many businesses work together to ensure the topic of mental...
Excerpt “As the saying goes, time is money, and that saying especially rings true in an office environment. One female entrepreneur is helping interior designers save time on everyday tasks with the help of a newly released app, Sample Snap. You could say the...
Excerpt “South Bend-based 1st Source Bank honored 11 community volunteers with its Ernestine M. Raclin Community Leadership Award last month, including five from Business Weekly’s reading area. The award is in its 12th year. The bank established it to honor and...
Excerpt “To what extent is STRE.ME Strategy Services an automated business goal tracking service, or how would you describe it? STRE.ME is focused on enabling people to progress with purpose individually, on teams, and within organizations. To this end, the...
Excerpt “Karl R. LaPan is passionate about helping entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses in northeast Indiana. As the president and CEO of The Northeast Indiana Innovation Center (NIIC), LaPan leads his team in accomplishing that mission every day. For...
Funding will be used to support entrepreneurs in high-tech fields FORT WAYNE – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has awarded a $125,000 Federal and State Technology (FAST) grant to the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center (The NIIC) in Fort Wayne. The NIIC...
Excerpt “FORT WAYNE – The Fort Wayne-based Northeast Indiana Innovation Center has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration. The SBA says the funding aims to help underrepresented entrepreneurs, such as minorities, women-owned and...
Excerpt “Teens are often asked: ‘What do you want to do after you graduate high school?’ But one question that is not directed at them often enough is: ‘What do you want to do right now?’ There is a common perception that middle and high...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration granted 24 awards up to $125,000 per recipient in FY 2019 under its Federal and State Technology (FAST) Partnership Program. FAST’s objective is to improve outcomes for underrepresented entrepreneurs in SBA’s Small...
Flagstar Foundation Awards Grant to Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center (WEOC) August 19, 2019, Fort Wayne, Ind.—Underserved entrepreneurs in Northeast Indiana are the focus of a $5,000 grant from the Flagstar Foundation, the charitable arm of Flagstar Bank. It...
August 19, 2019, Fort Wayne, Ind.—Staffing has begun for the Connected Health Lab, forming to strengthen and diversify Indiana’s health-related markets. The long-term vision is to help make Indiana a recognized global leader in health IoT (Internet of Things). Jessica...
Collaboration Enhances Member Experience, Provides Competitive Edge for Credit Unions FORT WAYNE, Ind.–(August 13, 2019)–Allied Payment Network, the industry’s most progressive provider of online and mobile bill payment services to banks and credit unions,...
Excerpt “Economic development leaders in the northeast part of the state say Indiana is fertile soil for the development of health-focused ‘Internet of Things’ technologies…and Fort Wayne is leading the charge. In the Business of Health, learn more...
FORT WAYNE, IN – BioPoly, LLC has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with UK-based distributor, Hospital Innovations Ltd, to distribute the BioPoly® partial resurfacing family of products throughout the UK. Hospital Innovations, founded in 2008,...
Excerpt “Parkview Health holds the belief that every person it employs, from the doctors to the nurses and even the kitchen and cleaning staff, have a great idea brewing in their brains. At the Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation, it wants to pull...
Company Adds Product Manager and Software Engineer to Support Growth FORT WAYNE, Ind.–(July 03, 2019)–Allied Payment Network, the industry’s most progressive provider of online and mobile bill payment services to banks and credit unions, announced today...
Excerpt “How would you describe Burned-In Teacher? “I started Burned-In Teacher after a dozen years of teaching first through fifth grades in Noble County in order to serve a different type of student: burned-out, frustrated, left-behind educators who want...
Ralph Marcuccilli and his company, Allied Payment Network, are trying to hurry America’s transition to a paperless society. The Fort Wayne business develops electronic bill payment products and services used by financial institutions and their customers. “We no...