THE STACK
a blog for entrepreneurs & startups
Getting Clear on Marketing and Sales
Once you’ve defined your TAM, SAM, and beachhead markets for your startup, you’re ready to start putting together your go-to-market strategy. But first, you need to understand the difference between marketing and sales.
New Program Pays College Students to Develop Startups
Startup Summer is essentially a paid internship program for collegiate founders. In this case, however, the students are getting paid to intern at their own startups.
Defining the Market for Your Startup
You can’t build a customer-centered business without defining the market where those customers are. And then to get those customers, you need to hit marketing and sales out of the park.
Growing Bloomington’s Tech Talent With Upskilling
Southern Indiana has some fantastic new companies. But those companies still aren’t growing as fast as tech startups in other states, in part because they can’t find the talent they need to fuel growth.
Idea Competition Sparks Innovation
Before you dig deep, before you build a team, before you participate in an accelerator, sometimes you just gotta know: Is this idea as awesome as I think it is?
8 Revenue Models for Startups
How you monetize will impact how you define your business moving forward. Revenue models are fluid, and you can pivot.
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!