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To use a juggling metaphor, David Howard is a guy who keeps a lot of plates spinning. His latest project is Alley Works, a new apartment building with a restaurant complex at the former Yellow Ca...

http://www.magbloom.com/2020/06/david-howard-renaissance-man-on-the-move/

While team-building exercises may conjure up images of “trust falls” gone bad, the Bloomington Cooking School (BCS) has something a little more appetizing.

http://www.magbloom.com/2020/06/business-team-building-occurring-in-the-kitchen/

Business ownership is heavily romanticized thanks to legends of billionaires who started their companies in garages. While those are interesting stories, they are by no means the norm.

http://www.magbloom.com/2020/05/money-matters-enlist-local-expertise-when-starting-a-business/

Entrepreneur Mike Trotzke sees the pieces falling into place for Bloomington to become a successful launch pad for new technology businesses

http://www.magbloom.com/2020/05/mike-trotzke-a-tech-visionary-helping-transform-bloomington/

For most people, being shot is a life-changing experience. For John Hurlow, it was also a career-changing one.

http://www.magbloom.com/2020/04/one-life-changing-moment-for-wealth-manager-john-hurlow/

This is Part 1 of a series about starting a business.

http://www.magbloom.com/2020/03/take-sensible-steps-to-start-a-small-business/

Bloomington, like many cities, has infrastructure, housing, and transportation challenges that need to be addressed. But the solutions to those problems don’t offer the profit potential to attr...

http://www.magbloom.com/2020/03/cdfi-friendly-bloomington-offers-capital-resources-for-civic-projects/

When Erin Predmore, president and CEO of the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce, attended the city’s 2019 State of the Black Community address last February, she realized that the Chamber ...

http://www.magbloom.com/2020/02/black-business-affinity-group-makes-chamber-more-diverse/

On its surface, the Combine looks like a tech conference. But conference chair Mike Trotzke says it’s really not. “It’s a conference for people who think for a living, people whose main foc...

http://www.magbloom.com/2020/02/bloomingtons-entrepreneurial-spirit-on-display-at-the-combine/

Due to massive asset loss, many Americans purchased debt at an alarming rate over the past decade. MarketWatch reports that at the start of 2019, total consumer debt reached $14 trillion. That’...

http://www.magbloom.com/2020/01/dont-fear-good-debt/