May 4, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — Angie Hicks, founder and chief marketing officer of Angie's List and 1995 graduate of DePauw University, will address the Venture Club of Indiana tomorrow. Her 11:15 a.m. speech at the Barnes & Thornburg Conference Center in Indianapolis will cover "Angie's List Market Success Leads to $50M of New Investment," according to the Indianapolis Star.
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Created by Hicks shortly after she graduated from DePauw, Angie's List collects consumer reviews on local contractors and doctors in more than 500 service categories. Currently, more than 1.5 million consumers in more than 200 cities across the United States and Canada rely on Angie's List to help them make the best hiring decisions. The company collects about 40,000 reviews a month from consumers and is one of the fastest-growing companies in U.S. expanding from a 100-square foot office to a nationwide operation.
In October 2009, Angie Hicks -- who was an economics major and Management Fellow at DePauw and earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School -- was honored with DePauw's Robert C. McDermond Medal for Excellence in Entrepreneurship.
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