Tech

The apps students are required to use are frequently lacking in transparency, or worse.

Chef Craig Baker has transformed a gathering of shipping containers into the artisan food marketplace, AMP.

So you’re telling us there’s a chance.

But there are a few bugs in the program that gets the city there.

“About 18 percent of venture-backed tech companies in the U.S. have at least one female founder on the team. Here, that number is only 8 percent.”

“It’s not just believing in it as a human and for humanity and for morality.”

Who doesn’t want a pair of cat-ear headphones?

“First, we sometimes have this self-effacing Hoosier humble confidence that can swing too much into being ashamed of Indiana and talking down Indiana. That does us no good.”

The more the national light shines on Indy startups, the more important it is that these companies achieve their most meaningful growth with local ingredients.

“All of my best ideas are scribbled on airplane barf bags.”

“I live in a normal neighborhood in Greenfield with a couple of cul-de-sacs, and I literally went door to door to get people to invest $5,000 in ExactTarget. On the Google Map of my neighborhood, you’ll see, like, seven swimming pools. Every one of the swimming pools corresponds to an ExactTarget investor.”

“Startups are high-risk, high-reward. It could be a lot. You know the saying, ‘Don’t count your chickens before they hatch’? There are a lot of good-looking eggs, but none have hatched yet.”

When paired with a free app, the interactive duck features stories, music, and learning-based games. It’s a rare example of a consumer electronic conceived in Indy.

“There was an early rule that if they follow you, you should follow them back, and kumbaya. But the more you narrow your focus, the more valuable your feed can become.”

“Not many places have had that kind of success. We’re not faking it. This is real.”