Verge Winter 2011 Meetup
5:30 p.m. Thursday, December 8 at DeveloperTown, Indianapolis, IN
Verge is for all people in the Indianapolis-area working at or investing in tech startups. The Winter Meetup will highlight three new startups:

• Quipol, a cool social polling platform
• Knomingo, a unique video community
• uFlavor, a custom beverage startup, which will be launching to the world at this event!

So whether you’ve founded a startup, hack at a startup, or both, you’re likely to have a good time and make some great connections at their monthly meetup.

Click here for more information.

Drupal December Meetup
6:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 13 at the IUPUI Library, Indianapolis, IN

This month’s meeting is a hack session –there is no set topic or schedule. The topics are determined based on those who are attending. You can work with other Drupal people on your projects and get help if you’re struggling with something specific.

This meetup is great for beginners as well as experienced Drupal developers. There will be professional Drupalers present to help, so no topic is too simple or complex.

Click here for more information.

hYPe December Social Networking Event: Martinis and Merriment!
5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 14 at Serendipity Martini Bar, Bloomington, IN

The Bloomington Chamber of Commerce started hYPe in 2010 as a means to foster young budding professionals in Bloomington. hYPe will host a social networking event at Serendipity Martini Bar featuring door prizes, hors d’oeuvres, and drink specials. Bring three canned goods for admission!

Register for the event here.

Indy Media Artists Meetup
6 p.m. Thursday, January 19, 2012 at the J. Everett Light Career Center, Indianapolis, IN

Indy Media Artists provides a source of information and sense of community for local graphic designers, web designers, motion media and video creators. This month’s meeting will feature breakout groups on Photoshop, Adobe Suite 5.5 Demo, and WordPress.

Click here for more information.

We’ve worked on a lot of different projects over the years, recurring billing, proposals, Indian movies, and a better way to manage your finances, so the possibilities are endless.

Make sure to check out SproutBox’s website to see what characteristics we look for in an idea. And if you need some more help, Brad Wisler, wrote a post a while back describing who we like to invest in.

Don’t forget December 18th is the cutoff for this round. So get cracking on developing the best idea we’ve ever heard and apply!

Quipol is quite simple. It’s an embeddable polling application. How it 
impacts user behavior is what is fascinating. Much like Twitter and
 FormSpring, its constraints and simplicity make it greater than the 
sum of its parts.

Quipols are incredibly easy to build and share,
 allowing creators to engage their users while simultaneously unlocking
 the opinions and perspectives of their audience.  A Quipol helps focus
 and direct the conversation around content, minimizing the typical 
internet comments free-for-all. By leveraging networks like Facebook 
and Twitter, Quipol makes polls social, driving users back to the 
original embed source. This combination of higher engagement, enhanced data collection, and increased traffic is a game 
changer for anyone with an audience.

The easiest way to describe a Quipol is to embed one:

Through perseverance (as in continually offering to do others’ laundry), Max has surrounded himself with an all-star team of Indiana advisors, including top minds from 
KA+A, SproutBox and Gravity Labs. He created personalized videos to 
send early adopters in the press. Each month, he dedicates 
61% of his income from his day job to his startup. He is a crazy one.

We’re proud to have Max and Quipol as a part of the SproutBox family.

To find out more about Quipol check out some of the recent press coverage on
 The Next Web and NBC Chicago.