Is your business prepared to take advantage of the more than $4 billion in federal stimulus funds designated for Indiana? Learn where the opportunities are and how to access the compliance requirements at an Indiana Chamber seminar on May 20 at the...
Development
What is ValpoLife.com?
What is ValpoLife.com?ValpoLife.com, a website that Valparaiso can call home, dedicated to telling the story about the abundance of great things occurring in the Valparaiso area, has just launched!We are bursting out of the gate with a head of steam,...
Good Morning Valpo!
spusk_4_media_kit.indd Good Morning ValpoLife.com Community, It's Friday morning the 27th, and we are running hard to close out a fantastic first week live on the web connecting with so many of you in Valpo. It has been awesome to meet so many...
Give Your Business the 20 Questions
As a parent of any teenager knows, the routine of asking them the 20 questions about what they are doing, who are they doing it with, when are they going to do it, and whether whatever it is that they are doing is good for them, is a critical part of...
City of Valparaiso Welcomes Launch of ValpoLife.com
Dear Readers,On behalf of the City of Valparaiso, I'd like to welcome VALPOLIFE.com to our city. We're excited about the ways the site will help people connect in Valparaiso. Want to know the score or schedule for local sports? Interested in checking...
Tax Meeting
There will be a very important property tax meeting for Porter County residents on April 9. This meeting was requested by Commissioner Tim Rushenberg, who is in charge of the Department of Local Government Finance (DLGF). He will be speaking at...
Are You Really “Open” For Business?
After spending my whole career—one way or another—in the business development field and being a bit crazy about the subject, I continually find many little things businesses could be doing to improve their results. Recently, I was searching for a...
Book Review: The Change Function: Why Some Technologies Take Off and Others Crash and Burn
Book Written by Pip Coburn Book Summary by Chris Mahlmann In the last year or two, how many times have you heard the word “change”? 1,000? 10,000? Between the political campaigns, the economy, and the world all around us, “change” seems to be...
Thomas Felter
Thomas Felter Jr. has been named Porter’s “Associate of the Year” for 2009.Felter, a paramedic with Porter’s Emergency Medical Services for the last 12 years, is a familiar face in the community. He grew up in South Haven fully intending to...
Building Your Business
Keep Up the Work – Even in Tough Times Building your business is one key job requirement of leaders in any company, every day, regardless of what the economic times hold. It is easy to get buried working in your business and not spending enough...