THE STACK
a blog for entrepreneurs & startups
Welcome to Our New Board Members!
With so much talent leaving and joining our board, we’re feeling impressed and grateful for the depth of knowledge and experience in our community.
Developing Customer Insights
The process of unpacking interviews into insights requires paying careful attention as you revisit the conversations, capturing important data, and then sorting those observations into patterns.
Innovation Week Is Coming!
Join us at iWeek to learn, celebrate, and explore. Visit our Eventbrite to register for iWeek sessions, or just stop by The Mill
Free Upskilling Provides Fast Track to Better Wages
What makes Code/IT Academy so effective is its combination of intensive training, career coaching, and job placement after graduation.
Flywheel Fund Invests in Blueprint Stats
Less than 1% of the basketball world uses breakdowns, due to the cost and difficulty of accessing the technology. Blueprint Stats attacks that problem head on at a time when both sides of the market are looking for player insights.
Learning to Listen to Customer Needs
When you set out to put customers at the center of your business, your first task is to understand customer needs. To build a truly human-centered enterprise, you have to allow customer feedback and perception to shape the value proposition of your product.
Who’s Writing This Blog for entrepreneurs and startups?
The Mill is the heart of Bloomington’s startup ecosystem and its largest coworking space. As a nonprofit, we rely on membership fees and event space rentals, and on some very generous sponsors, too. Most importantly, we are entrepreneurs leading entrepreneurs!
The Mill provides access to a community of peers and mentors. In addition, we offer programs to turn innovative ideas and technologies into business concepts, as well as capacity-building resources, and access to startup capital.
Hundreds of members and dozens of companies call our beautiful coworking space home. Our diverse members include techies, solopreneurs and small companies,, for example, as well as freelancers, creatives, and remote workers. You can join for the coworking amenities, or join for the entrepreneurial support. We’re always energized by the great people we meet at The Mill!