Commentary

Hiring the right people is always challenging, but knowing how to conduct the proper interviews can make a huge difference in the success or failure of getting the right person. If it’s a top executive position for your company, taking time to fully understand the...

Seed-Stage Financings are often comparatively modest capital amounts provided to an inventor/entrepreneur to finance the early development of a new product or service concept. These early financings may involve product development and market research or building a management team and developing a business plan....

Businesses today are focused on being profitable and productive. Technology promises both. In the coming days, months and years, you'll see an increase in the adoption of technology among small–to-medium-size businesses, as well as mid-to-large-size commercial businesses. Our local businesses will incorporate...

Lately, I have been reading and re-reading "The Age of Unreason," an important book in which author Charles Handy makes the case for change, massive, life-altering, business-affecting change. Though an economist, Handy could not have foreseen the changes wrought by the Internet boom and our...

CHICAGO – This column isn’t just for Midwestern technology job seekers. It’s also for all Midwestern technology folks. Why have we concentrated so hard on job seekers here? Because so many of us are job hunting?...

What if we didn’t spend so much time trying to be the next Silicon Valley? I have lived in both places, and if Wisconsin’s technology roadmap is to become a Midwest carbon copy of Silicon Valley, we should save ourselves the...

I have resisted the urge to write about weblogs - until now. Truth be told - and probably something a so-called trend-spotter shouldn't admit - I'm not much for bandwagons. If everyone is going right, I'll move left just to avoid the crowd...

Very quietly, the world of video conferencing took huge strides last week. In fact, the technology has moved remarkably close to being the stuff mere mortals might use in everyday communications....