Entrepreneurs

• Boston entrepreneur to enliven Milwaukee angel group
  (March 23, 2005) Silicon Pastures, a Milwaukee investor group that has weathered a couple of slow years, is staging a comeback under the...
• Gulbrandsen tackles 'daunting' challenges in Patent Office
  (March 16, 2005) Madison, Wis. — Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's licensing arm, recounts some of the challenges he...
• MIT alums boost Wisconsin high-tech businesses
  (March 9, 2005) Waukesha, Wis. — Alumni from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are coming together to offer Wisconsin companies a helping hand....
• Contest narrows to 52 business plans
  (February 28, 2005) A field of 200 applicants has been winnowed to 52 in the Second Annual Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest. An...
• In search of the next big thing at DEMO
  (February 23, 2005) Scottsdale, Ariz. — Technology industry insiders flocked to the DEMO conference last week in Scottsdale. Many of the most innovative...
• Tech Digest: President to honor WARF; plus, Governor's tech-transfer award for entrepreneurs
  (February 16, 2005) • WARF will receive the National Medal of Technology from President Bush
  • Governor Doyle offers $5,000 award to a small...
• Coaching available for business-plan contest survivors
  (February 9, 2005) Organizers of the statewide Wisconsin business-plan contest this year intend to provide more mentorship to the entrepreneurial hopefuls who survive...
• Follow the money
  (February 2, 2005) Applications opened yesterday for presentation times at the Midwest Venture Summit on May 20 in Chicago. The Illinois Venture Capital...
• Tech Digest: Commerce, business-plan contest, tech grants, Metavante
  (January 26, 2005) • Doyle names new secretary of commerce
  • Business-plan contest deadline is January 31
  • Two Dane County companies get technology grants
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• Doyle names business and technology successes, plans for 2005
  (January 12, 2005) Madison, Wis. — “Wisconsin is on the move” was the theme of Governor Jim Doyle’s speech on the “State of...