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• Back to the Future: How Crisis Accelerates Trends with Kristian Andersen
• Design Sprinting in a Remote World
• Why We Started High Alpha Innovation
• High Alpha Launches New Startup to Help Leading Organizations Innovate Through the Venture Studio Model
• Scott Dorsey at Litera’s The Changing Lawyer LIVE!
• Why High Alpha Invested in Encamp
• Encamp Secures $3.1M in Series A Funding to Fuel Product Development
• Takeaways and Predictions From Bessemer’s 2020 State of the Cloud
• Terminus Acquires Ramble to Power Account-Based Conversations
• CEO Spotlight: Paige McPheely of Base
• COVID-19 Resources From the High Alpha Portfolio
• The SaaS Tech Stack: Technologies We Use to Build High-Growth Startups
• Why Brand Matters for B2B Marketers—And How to Market It
• Product-Led Growth for Startups
• The 9 Most Impactful Demand Generation Best Practices
• Why High Alpha Invested in Woven
• Woven Raises $2.5M Seed Round to Scale Remote Engineering Teams
• CEO Spotlight: Andrew Sawyer of Cured
• Casted Raises $2.3M to Launch Marketing Platform for Branded Podcasts
• High Alpha podcast software firm lands $2.35M in seed funding
• Casted Secures $2.35 Million Seed Funding, Launches First Marketing Platform for Branded Podcasts
• Podchaser raises $1.65M in round with prominent Louisville investors
• Why High Alpha Invested in Podchaser
• Podchaser raises $1.65M to expand database, launch Podchaser Connect
• 6 Things I Learned From My First Year In a Startup
• 9 Big Brands That Are Headquartered Where You Least Expect
• Pattern89, High Alpha, and Indiana University to Host Executive AI Summit
• An Outside Perspective with John Garry of High Alpha
• How Legendary Entrepreneurs Use The Constraint Of Time As An Advantage
• High Alpha Startup Aims to Assist Public Safety
• New High Alpha firm creates tech to connect citizens to police
• High Alpha Launches Relay to Transform the Way Citizens Engage with Public Safety Agencies
• High Alpha Adds Head of Business Design to Leadership Team
• 4 Principles for Scaling Your Demand Generation Engine
• Docket Raises $1.5M in Seed Funding and Launches Platform to ‘Rid the World of Wasteful Meetings’
• 2020 Tech Trends and Predictions From High Alpha
• How Product-Led Growth Teams Use Data Science to Uplevel Their Tech Stacks
• Top 10 Lessons from 10 Speaker Series in 2019
• LogicGate Secures $24.75M in Series B Funding
• Terminus Acquires Sigstr to Power the Next Generation B2B Marketing Platform
• This VC built an email marketing company in Indianapolis that he sold to Salesforce for $2.5 billion. Here’s why he thinks the city could be the next big tech center.
• Top Takeaways from Startup IQ: Lessons in Fundraising, a Blue Angels Event
• Boardable Secures $3 Million in Funding to Fuel Growth
• Lessons From 4 Years of High Alpha Sprint Weeks
• Innovation in the Midwest: Entrepreneurship Outside of Silicon Valley
• High Alpha-backed firm raises $2.6 million in seed funding
• New High Alpha Company Targets Executive Assistants
• Base Raises $2.6M in Seed Funding to Build the First-Ever Software Platform for Executive Assistants
• Valence Launches a Social Network for Black Professionals
• 5 Marketing Tips Every Startup Founder Needs to Know
• Workforce Logiq Acquires ENGAGE Talent and its Proprietary, AI-Driven Models for Discovering, Acquiring, and Retaining Talent
• Expansion SaaS Benchmarks: Key Learnings on Product-Led Growth Adoption
• So You Want to Sponsor a Conference? The Ultimate Guide for Startup Marketers
• What to Think About When Hosting Your First User Conference
• Why Building for Scale and Creating Benchmarks Matters
• Why Zylo’s Series B Matters
• Zylo Secures $22.5 Million Series B led by Menlo Ventures, Matt Murphy Joining Board
• Cured Raises $2.5M in Seed Funding to Advance Its Healthcare Growth and Experience Platform
• G2 Reach 2019 Recap: Relationships, Trust, and High Alpha Capital Galore
• Why High Alpha Invested in Superside and the Future of Work
• Newly renamed Superside raises $3.5M for its outsourced design platform
• How Pattern89 Growth Hacked Their Marketing to Get 4x the Leads in 2 Months
• Julia Kauffman Named a Member of TechPoint’s Tech 25 Class of 2019
• 3 Reasons More Investors Are Turning to the Midwest
• Litera Acquires Leading Transaction Management Software Provider Doxly
• Attentive Raises $40 Million Series B Led by Sequoia
• Sequoia leads $40M investment in mobile messaging startup Attentive
• The United States Of Venture Capital: The Most Active VC In Each State
• 4 Key Trends Impacting the Midwest Venture Landscape
• Socio Raises $6M Series A to Expand Event Management Platform
• Encamp Adds $1M and Fuels Shift to EHS Compliance Cloud
• 5 Practical Skills to Bring to Your First Startup
• Investors Urge AI Startups to Inject Early Dose of Ethics
• Anvl Raises $2M in Seed Funding to Modernize the EHS Industry for Worker Safety
• Streaming Data from the Universe with Apache Kafka
• 2019 Innovation Issue: Mark Clerkin on coaching networks, a new innovation paradigm
• ENGAGE Talent Raises $3.5M to Accelerate Innovation and Scaling of AI Talent Intelligence Technology
• Boardable Secures $1 Million in Seed Funding From High Alpha Capital
• Email Management: From Surviving to Thriving
• The High Alpha Finance Team is Hiring!
• Beyond Company Building: Lessons Learned During High Alpha’s First Four Years
• Fireside Chat with Aaron Levie
• Data Stream Processing for Newbies with Kafka, KSQL, and Postgres
• Malomo Turns Shipment Tracking into a Powerful Marketing Channel for Ecommerce Brands
• Developer Hiring Platform, Woven, Acquires NYC-Based Tech Screening Platform
• High Alpha Pilots: Allison Bantz
• Business Design: Focusing on the Customer’s Job to be Done
• The High Alpha Capital Team is Growing!
• Alloy 2019
• CEO Spotlight With project44
• Your First Startup Budget: How Much Should You Burn?
• 2019 Tech Trends from High Alpha
• Woven Launches With Funding, On A Mission To Reduce Bias In Software Hiring
• What Did You Read This Year?
• Putting the band back together, ExactTarget execs reunite to launch MetaCX
• Former Salesforce Marketing Cloud Boss Scott McCorkle’s New Startup Raises $14 Million While Stealth
• MetaCX Launches With $14M in Funding to Redesign Customer Success
• A Cloud-Native API Part 2: Google Endpoints
• What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Duke Basketball
• Everything You Need to Know About Thriving in a Startup Environment
• High Alpha Adds Two Enterprise Cloud Veterans as Entrepreneurs in Residence
• Sprint Week: What to Expect When Creating a Company in 4 Days
• High Alpha CFO Blake Koriath Named Indy’s Best and Brightest 2018
• The Startup Life: Design in Indy Tech
• Event-Driven Architecture: A Primer
• Meet Charlene Tay, Data Scientist at High Alpha
• Top Takeaways from Leadership Flight School
• Pattern89 Raises $3.5 Million to Grow Paid Social AI Platform
• High Alpha Venture Studio Launches Worker-Safety Software Firm
• High Alpha Launches Anvl to Reinvent Workforce Safety for the Digital Age
• G2 Crowd Raises $55M to Transform the Way Businesses Buy Software
• What I’ve Learned Working at a Venture Studio
• High Alpha Pilots: Jon Hubartt
• CrowdRiff Raises $9 Million Series A to Power Visual Content for the World’s Travel Brands
• Zylo Named a Cool Vendor by Gartner
• project44 Lands $45 Million in Funding for Freight Tech Expansion
• Take the Wheel: Driving Kubernetes with Helm
• Hendricks Commercial Properties Brings High Alpha Headquarters to Historic Bottleworks District on Mass Ave
• Running an Efficient Meeting
• Sigstr Secures $4 Million Investment Led by Edison Partners to Fuel Growth of New Products and Market Expansion
• 5 Accounting Musts for Early-Stage Startups
• How to Make the Perfect Pitch Deck
• Narvar Raises Series C Round to Simplify the Lives of Consumers Worldwide
• Sigstr Gives Marketers the Power of Relationships, Introduces Sigstr Pulse
• High Alpha Pilots: Robby Gulri
• LogicGate Raises $7.5 Million to Accelerate Risk and Compliance Automation
• The Next Chapter for High Alpha Studio
• Midwest Rising: Midwestern Success Stories Show that Innovation Ecosystems are Taking Root in the Heartland
• Investing in Tech Debt: Choose Wisely
• Indianapolis’ High Alpha Raises Over $100 Million for its Enterprise Software-Focused ‘Venture Studio’
• High Alpha Raises Over $100M to Launch High Alpha Studio II and High Alpha Capital II
• The Right Time to Invest in Your Talent Team
• Cordial Raises $15M to Help Marketers Adapt to the Increasingly Dynamic Customer Journey
• High Alpha Pilots: Jeff Cunning
• High Alpha’s Blake Koriath Named to Kauffman Fellows’ Class 23
• How to Hire and Evaluate an All-Star Startup Marketer: 7 Questions to Consider
• Integrate Lands $23M in Growth Capital to Fuel Global Expansion and M&A
• The Changing Standard of the MVP Part 3: Theranos and the Dangers of Sell-First
• We Need More Open Conversations About Gender Equality in the Workplace
• CEO Spotlight With ENGAGE Talent
• Texas Tech Firm Acquiring High Alpha’s ClearScholar
• Civitas Learning Adds Mobile App to Transform Student Engagement in Higher Ed
• My Advice to Entrepreneurs: Find People Who Have “Seen the Movie.”
• Structural Secures $2.5M to Accelerate Growth of its People Insight Platform
• A Cloud-Native API Part 1: Google Cloud and Kubernetes
• High Alpha Adds Key Hires in HR and Corporate Innovation to Leadership Team
• The Changing Standard of the MVP Part 2: Build or Sell First
• Communicating with Microservices
• 6 Keys to Enterprise B2B Marketing
• The “Bottom Line” Isn’t “The Bottom Line”
• High Alpha Wins 2018 Investor of the Year Mira Award
• High Alpha Pilots: Natalie Fedie
• How to Successfully Hire Your Initial Tech Team
• Design from Day One
• Allegion + High Alpha: Tech Talks
• Startup Operators: Improve Decision-Making by Using an Opportunity Cost Framework
• High Alpha Pilots: Justin Keller and Brad Beutler
• High Alpha’s Approach to Data Science
• Why Hospitality Matters
• The Changing Standard of the MVP Part 1: Designing for the Enterprise
• Conga to Acquire Octiv to Accelerate Intelligent Document Automation Capabilities
• Things to Think About Before an Acquisition
• How to Use Your Passion to Accelerate Your Career
• 5 Key Takeaways from SaaStr Annual 2018
• Disrupt or Be Disrupted
• High Alpha Pilots: Mike Preuss
• The State of SaaS in #IndyTech
• Culture Is a Product You Build
• What Is an Entrepreneur?
• High Alpha Invests in ENGAGE Talent
• Enterprise Cloud Technology Veteran Robin Fleming Joins High Alpha as Entrepreneur in Residence
• How To Hire From Your Friends
• Blake Koriath Named to IBJ’s 2018 40 Under 40
• Sigstr Takes on Sigstr: 9 Takeaways from Analyzing Our Own 2017 Email Signature Marketing Data
• Startup “Flight Instruments” Vol. 2: Total Market Opportunity
• How to Build a Great Data Science Team
• Startup “Flight Instruments” Vol. 1: The Nautilus
• Zylo Secures $9.3M Series A Led By Bessemer Venture Partners, Byron Deeter Joining Board
• Zylo Looks To Become Indiana’s Next Tech Hit With $9 Million Fundraise From Top VCs
• The Value of a Thesis & A Look Into Ours
• We All Communicate: 3 Ways to Do it Better
• The Venture Capital Net Promoter Score
• 2018 Tech Trends from High Alpha
• Walking the Tightrope of an Early-Stage Startup
• The Top 25 Quotes from our 2017 High Alpha Speaker Series
• The Problem With Problems
• The Best VCs are “Listeners”
• The Mission-Driven Brand Advantage
• Router Ventures Founder and Startup Community Builder Jeff Slobotski Joins High Alpha as Entrepreneur in Residence
• AWS: Your Startup’s Billion-Dollar R&D Department
• High Alpha 2017: A Year in Review
• 5 Characteristics of a Great Engineer
• Why You Need a Great Product Manager
• Sprint Week: A Forcing Function for Innovation
• Lessonly Raises $8 Million Series B to Reimagine Training for Over 1 Million Learners
• VCs Move Fast When They Want To
• The (Second) Greatest Sales Deck and Pitch I’ve Ever Seen
• Five Aspects of a Great Company Culture
• Mapping Your Career With Women Leaders of High Alpha: A Blue Angels Event Recap
• CloudNY : Making Sure Your VP of Sales Is Ready for The Next Stage of Growth
• 5 Tips to Nail a Successful Product Launch
• The Importance of a Competitor
• What Every Startup Employee Should Know About Finance
• 5 Years After iGoDigital
• Radical Transparency
• The Future of Retail
• High Alpha VP of Finance Blake Koriath Named Indy’s Best and Brightest 2017 Finalist
• 3 Tips for Sharing Meaningful Social Content for Your Company
• “Finance Guilt” — A Startup Epidemic
• A Beginner’s Guide to Working at a SaaS Startup
• Sigstr Secures $5M Series A to Build the Next Generation Marketing Platform
• Kolby McElvain Named a Member of TechPoint’s Tech 25 Class of 2017
• Key Takeaways from High Alpha’s Fireside Chat with Scott Burns
• Startup Forecasting: 5 Actionable Tactics for Responsible Financial Management
• Why a Designer Should Be Your First Hire
• Startup Wars: The Incumbents Strike Back
• Graph Databases: Living on the Edge
• High Alpha Invests in Integrate
• Key Takeaways from High Alpha’s Fireside Chat with Scott McCorkle
• Heartland Tech Weekly: What ‘The Value of Work’ Means
• Indy Tech Town Hall: How Did We Get Here? The ExactTarget Model
• Benchmarking 5 SaaS IPOs in the First Half of 2017
• High Alpha Formalizes Women in Tech Initiative
• Innovation Isn’t About Creating New Things
• High Alpha Launches Portfolio-Wide Women’s Development Group Dubbed Blue Angels
• Why High Alpha Invested in Fuzic
• The Art of Storytelling
• High Alpha Invests in Fuzic
• Innovation Looks a Lot More Like Science Than It Does Art
• 5 Crazy/Cool Things That Happened This Week (June 16th, 2017)
• Is your churn rate skewed? Watch out for two big factors.
• 5 Crazy/Cool Things That Happened This Week (June 9th, 2017)
• A Cloud-Computing Recap of Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 2017
• Indianapolis-Based Quantifi Raises Over $2 Million to Improve Digital Ad Testing
• Digital Marketing R&D Platform Quantifi Launches From High Alpha With Over $2M in Seed Funding Committed
• 5 Crazy/Cool Things That Happened This Week (June 2nd, 2017)
• 8 Types of Freemium Pricing
• Why High Alpha Is a Venture Studio
• 5 Crazy/Cool Things That Happened This Week (May 19th, 2017)
• Why Voice Is Just A Bridge
• Why High Alpha Invested in Terminus and the Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Revolution
• High Alpha Invests in Account-Based Marketing Leader Terminus
• 5 Crazy/Cool Things That Happened This Week (May 12th, 2017)
• The Now, The New, and The Next of Alternative UIs
• Proven Software Leaders Join with High Alpha to Launch Structural, a Platform to Unleash the Potential of People and Teams
• 5 Crazy/Cool Things That Happened This Week (May 5th, 2017)
• 5 Crazy/Cool Things That Happened This Week (April 28th, 2017)
• Fundamentals of Startup Marketing
• 5 Crazy/Cool Things That Happened This Week (April 21st, 2017)
• Want a Map to $1M ARR? Build a Financial Model.
• SaaS Leaders’ Top 9 Marketing Trends to Watch in 2017
• 12 Key Levers of SaaS Success
• Top 20 Things SaaS Founders Should Know About Finance
• Former Salesforce Marketing Cloud Executive Bryan Wade Joins Sigstr as CEO
• Scott Dorsey Discusses Next-Generation Skills
• High Alpha Invests in Cordial Alongside Upfront Ventures
• Billion Dollar Ideas: How to Know When You See One — The Conviction Score
• 5 Traits of Successful Product-Led Growth Companies
• Recruiting and Compensation Lessons from Josh James and the Omniture and Domo Journey
• Content Marketing and Demand Gen Lessons From the 50 Fastest-Growing B2B Companies
• Get to $100M ARR While Burning Almost Nothing: 6 Learnings in 6 Years
• What Changes at $50M ARR
• Company Spotlight: Lessonly
• Billion Dollar Ideas: How to Know When You See One — The Product Score
• Payments Startup Dwolla Raises $6.85M More, Debuts Access API
• High Alpha Invests in Dwolla
• How Indianapolis, Long Known as a Manufacturing Center, Is Luring Tech Talent
• McCorkle Joins High Alpha Following Post-Salesforce Hiatus
• Former Salesforce Marketing Cloud CEO Scott McCorkle Joins High Alpha as Executive in Residence
• The Future of Voice in the Enterprise
• Mobile Student Engagement Platform ClearScholar Secures $1.25M in Funding
• A Startup Playbook for Data Science Projects
• The Importance of Focus in Your Early GTM Strategy
• The 20 Minute VC Featuring Scott Dorsey
• Four Big Ideas Shaping Product Strategy Today
• 2016’s 50 Most Innovative Tech Products (Part III)
• 2016’s 50 Most Innovative Tech Products (Part II)
• 2016’s 50 Most Innovative Tech Products (Part I)
• 2016 IBJ Woman of Influence: M.T. Ray
• SaaS Optimization Platform Zylo Secures $3.3M in Seed Funding
• Billion Dollar Ideas: How to Know When You See One — The Customer Score
• Want to raise a Seed or Series A? Here’s a tip: Don’t have impossible financial projections.
• High Alpha Invests in Doxly
• Doxly Raises Over $2.2M in Funding From Leading Legal and Software Investors
• Early-Stage Startup Finance: 5 Essentials After Company Formation
• High Alpha Invests in Octiv
• Billion Dollar Ideas: How to Know When You See One — Financial Ability
• 3 Lessons on the Art of Fundraising from High Alpha
• Zylo Announces Integration With Okta
• B2B SaaS: Our Full-Court Press
• If I Knew Then
• High Alpha Invests in DroneDeploy
• DroneDeploy Raises $20 Million to Help any Business Put Drones to Work
• DroneDeploy Raises $20 Million to Help Businesses Benefit From Drone Aerial Data
• Billion Dollar Ideas: How to Know When You See One — The Market
• Too Many SaaS Subscriptions? There’s a SaaS Solution for That.
• High Alpha Upstart, Doxly, Aims to Streamline Legal Legwork
• High Alpha Launches Doxly
• If I Knew Then With Eric Tobias
• TinderBox Is Now Octiv
• High Alpha Portfolio Leaders Recognized in the Tech 25 Class of 2016
• 5 Ways to Apply Innovation in Your Role
• High Alpha Studio Launches Software-Tracking Startup
• High Alpha Launches Zylo
• High Alpha, Butler University Launch ClearScholar
• High Alpha Invests in When I Work
• High Alpha Invests in When I Work
• Hourly Employee Scheduling Startup When I Work Secures $15MM
• Let’s Close the Gap for Women in Tech
• Winning the War for Talent
• Happy #CNX16 Week from Scott Dorsey and the Sigstr Team
• 6 Things My Younger Self Taught Me About Leadership
• When Designers Become Venture Capitalists
• How to Hire Your Own Boss in Your First (or Second) Sales Position
• Lessonly Raises $5 Million to Fuel Growth of Its Employee Learning Automation Software
• Sigstr Adds Key Hires and Exceeds Growth Goals
• Another ExactTarget Alum Joins Year-Old High Alpha
• Designing Businesses: An Exclusive Interview with Kristian Andersen
• High Alpha Invests in CrowdRiff
• Kellogg School of Management Dean Sally Blount Inspires at High Alpha Speaker Series
• Midwest Tech Firms Might Skirt Big Valuation Dips, Experts Say
• How to Scale Your Hiring with a Sales-Based Recruiting Model
• 5 Key Trends from SaaStr Annual 2016
• Illusion and Reality in Product/Market Fit with Hiten Shah and David Cancel
• 5 Marketing Lessons from Aaron Levie and the Early Box Marketing Team
• Scott Dorsey Shares Learnings and High Alpha’s New Model for Entrepreneurship at SaaStr Annual 2016
• High Alpha, Appirio Partner to Grow Startups Faster
• High Alpha and Appirio Announce Strategic Partnership
• Micro-tasks: The Key To Productivity
• Executives, Networking Helped Make 2015 a Watershed Year for VC Funding
• Finding Venture Capital Far from the Coasts
• High Alpha Invests in TINYpulse
• Sigstr Attracts $1.5M in Funding from Leading Software Executives Across Nation; Expands Board of Directors
• Sigstr Launches “Advanced Signatures” Product to Meet Huge Marketer Demand for Branded Employee Email Signatures
• How Early Exit Disease Stunts the Growth of Midwest Startup Communities
• TinderBox Raises $7 Million to Fuel Growth, Expand Sales Productivity Platform
• High Alpha Invests in Narvar
• Sigstr Partners with High Alpha Studio to Launch New Marketing Platform for Employee Email Communications
• G2 Crowd Secures $7 Million in Series A Funding to Advance Vision of Changing the Way Business Software is Bought and Sold
• Dorsey, Gravity Investors Raise $35M to Launch High Alpha
• High Alpha Raises $35M to Create, Operate, and Fund Next Generation Enterprise Cloud Companies

Events

• Ron Klain
• Dave Gerhardt
• Julie Lyle
• Top Takeaways from High Alpha’s 2020 Marketing Flight School
• Randall and Deborah Tobias
• Jeremy Swift
• Allison Melangton
• Leadership Forum 2019: Lessons for Emerging Leaders
• Mitch Daniels
• Jennifer Jarrett
• 4 Key Takeaways From Finance Flight School 2019
• Kobie Fuller
• Dr. Allison Barber & Tamika Catchings
• Top Takeaways from Product Flight School 2019
• Brad Rencher
• A New Model for Entrepreneurship: The Venture Studio
• Beyond Innovation Theater
• Fireside Chat with Greg Becker and Kate Mitchell
• The Science of Startup Engagement
• Fireside Chat with Aaron Levie and Scott Dorsey
• Max Yoder
• Gerry Dick
• Top Takeaways From Marketing Flight School
• Todd Henry
• Top Takeaways from High Alpha Customer Success Flight School
• Jay Baer
• Top Takeaways from Leadership Flight School
• Pacers Gaming
• Lessons from Finance Flight School 2018
• Justin Delaney
• Mario Rodriguez
• Sales Flight School 2018
• Takeaways from High Alpha Product Flight School 2018
• MC Hammer
• High Alpha XO Summit Recap
• Sarah Lacy
• Takeaways From Marketing Flight School 2018
• Chris Redlitz
• Jeremy Bloom
• Wendy Lea
• Kristin Groos Richmond
• Melissa Greenwell
• Lisa Coca
• Scott Burns
• Scott McCorkle
• Gordon Ritter
• Dave Knox
• Sujan Patel
• Angie Hicks
• Danny Gregory
• Alex Bard
• Mike Gamson
• Tim Kopp
• Paul Singh
• David Niu
• Amit Sharma
• Sally Blount
• Mayor Joe Hogsett
• Scott Maxwell
• Panel: David Cummings, Kyle Porter, Craig Hyde, Eric Spett, Jon Birdsong
• Panel: Matt Blumberg, Scott Burns, Devon McDonald, and Guy Turner
• Clay Collins