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The saying ”what goes around comes around” comes to mind as the dotcom era buzz phrase, “The War for Talent,” makes a comeback. In this Next Generation article, columnist Tony DiRomualdo critiques a special report on key talent market trends, and debates one of its...

The end of a once promising partnership with Pfizer has not dissuaded a Madison biotechnology company from pursuing ways to bring drugs to market faster and more cost effectively. Deltanoid Pharmaceuticals, which was spun out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is pursuing Phase II funding...

An electronic database that uses Web-based tools to connect privately held companies with board candidates has thus far been focused on Wisconsin, but sponsors of DirectorConnector have been approached about taking the service national. Since launching in 2004, the free service has connected 146 board...

Kathi Christian wears two hats at the QTI Group, which can place her in some conflicting and complementary situations. As the director of information systems and the CFO of a group of companies with 11 locations, there is a lot of compliance to worry about,...

Wisconsin may never be Silicon Valley when it comes to entrepreneurial churn, but it has the capacity to become less risk averse. That was one of several messages to come out of the ninth annual E-Business Best Practices and Emerging Technologies Conference....

In a surprise announcement, Elizabeth Donley, who has served as executive director of the WiCell Research Institute since early September, has announced her resignation. Since 1998, Donley served in a variety of capacities for WiCell and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, but left to pursue...

Among the presenters at the forthcoming E-Business Institute Conference will be Pip Coburn, founder of Coburn Ventures and perhaps the first analyst who saw the 2000 technology collapse coming. In a pre-conference interview with WTN News, the man who wrote the book on change, including...

The intersection of biotechnology and information technology is crossed by a number of Wisconsin companies, particularly those immersed in genomics, but the combination is more customer centric than glamorous. And, as venture capitalists and executives alike will concede, such multi-disciplinary capabilties are not as important...

Broadlook Technologies has hired its formal legal counsel to drive sales, marketing, and business development efforts. The Milwaukee-based Internet data sourcing provider will bring on Gregory Meier, most recently of the Michael Best & Friedrich law firm, as its chief operating officer. ...