By Claire Dalton, PR & Social Media Specialist Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are online courses aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. The tactic behind MOOCs is to take enough free online classes to add up to the equivalent of an MBA....
By Claire Dalton Victor W. Hwang is CEO, Co-founder, and Managing Director of T2 Venture Capital, a Silicon Valley firm that builds startups and designs the ecosystems that foster entrepreneurial innovation. In this talk, he asserts that because all innovation happens at the level of individuals...
By John Wechsler, Entrepreneur As we quietly breezed past the 300 member mark at Launch Fishers, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the image of perfection I see on display every time I walk though the doors. Standby for bowling references in 3,...
By Claire Dalton, PR & Social Media Specialist TechPoint's 15th annual Mira Awards received a 40 percent increase in applicants than any previous records. TechPoint President and CEO Mike Langellier said that the dramatic increase is another positive indicator of the strength and momentum of Indiana’s tech...
By Taylor Cutshaw, Launch Fishers Intern Companies around the world are always searching for the best of the best; the most talented. However, many of these talented people can be driven away by things, such as robotic communications, inflexible time-off policies and more found in the...
Entrepreneur, Cameron Herold, wants parents and teachers to recognize -- and foster -- entrepreneurial talent in kids. "To embrace the idea at a young age of being entrepreneurial, we can change everything in the world that is a problem today." ...
In honor of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, we thought we'd share a blog post about Olympic Silver and Gold Medalist, Derek Parra, who won both medals in the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Not only is Parra and Olympic medalist, but he is...
Joshua Canan is a new intern at Launch Fishers. He is a senior at Ball State University majoring in Entrepreneurship with a minor in Finance. During his internship at Launch Fishers, he hopes to learn more about new businesses and the startup process. ...
Every startup community needs an entrepreneurial center of gravity. A startup community’s center of gravity is where cofounders meet each other. It’s where angels find investment opportunities. It’s where startups meet journalists and serendipitously get PR. It’s where people who just moved to town go...
Ah, the new year. It's full of so much promise and potential, offering hope to anyone who believes the new year is a time to wipe the slate clean and start fresh. The year 2014 is one month in, so we thought it would be...