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Region’s small business development center helps launch 54 new businesses in 2018

The Northwest Indiana Small Business Development Center knows what it takes to help entrepreneurs make their dreams of running their own companies a reality. In 2018, the regional ISBDC, assisted clients start 54 businesses and in total served 504 clients, according to information from the Northwest Indiana Small Business Development Center. “We are honored to …

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The 2018 Entrepreneurial Excellence (E-Day) Award honorees

Making their own way

Region’s E-Day award-winning serial entrepreneurs share experiences of business successes and failures Like most opportunistic kids, Jeff Conti not only worked on his newspaper route, he also shoveled snow and mowed lawns for his first entrepreneurial experiences. Conti explored other unconventional ways to challenge himself while growing up in the late 1970s and early ’80s …

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A convenient smoothie

Entrepreneur offers bag of fresh ingredients for good health Green smoothies have been a part of Allyson Straka’s life for more than a decade. The single mom and certified holistic health coach drinks at least one green smoothie a day in her effort to eat clean, natural, nutrient-dense, healthy foods. Her advice to anyone who …

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Indiana seeing increase in women-owned businesses

A new report shows the number of women-owned businesses in Indiana is increasing. The latest State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, commissioned by American Express and prepared by Ventureneer with support from CoreWoman, estimates Indiana is home to 181,400 women-owned companies, employing 191,600 people who have generated $33.3 billion in sales. The latest number of women-owned …

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Truly Teas

Class project becomes online business for Indiana University Northwest graduates

GARY – A college education has returned immediate dividends for three graduates of Indiana University Northwest. Truly Teas, an online beverage business, was launched by IU Northwest alums Demi Kolintzas, 26, of Schererville; Lindsey Liesenfelt, 26, of Cedar Lake; and Branka Vukotic, 33, of Highland. The trio banded together in a marketing strategies class for …

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Swartz, Retson

Ready for Another Century

CPA firm Swartz, Retson and Co. serving the Region since 1919 Gregory Ward unearthed an intriguing mystery about Swartz, Retson and Co., an accounting firm that prides itself on numbers, figures and accuracy. Two years ago, the firm’s youngest partner began researching its history to determine its true age. For decades, the oldest accounting firm …

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