The picture in The Washington Post — a worried Green Bay Packers fan, game-ready with cheesehead and green- and gold-striped face — summed up the disappointing news. So did the headline: "Wisconsin ranked dead last in start-up activity." In a year when new company formation rose nationally,...
In my last blog with Stephen Gold, EVP of Business and Technology Operations and CIO of CVS Health, we discussed Gold’s approach to continuity of value, a process that Gold uses to make sure he and his business partners make the right IT investments. No...
You’ve started your business and survived. Now, what? How do you move from struggling to established to growing consistently and profitably? The answer is scaling, a concept very different from lean thinking. The latter pulls out costs that do not add value. Scaling allows you...
VERONA, Wis. - Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner is joining a philanthropic pledge that encourages billionaires to give the majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes. The Giving Pledge was created by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates in 2010. A release issued Tuesday confirmed...
No list can guarantee the success of your business, but this one guarantees it will be epic. We love lists. I'm convinced that etched on some ancient cave wall there exits a bulleted list of the Ten Things Every Cro-Magnon Must Do To Succeed; okay, it...
Jerry Jendusa’s newest venture is called STUCK, but the veteran entrepreneur, business advisor and community leader seems anything but mired in the muck of under-achievement. The Milwaukee-area native grew EMTEQ from a basement startup to an international aerospace company over 18 years before it was...
A panel of four experts from the worlds of venture capital, medicine and digital health will set the tone for a two-day discussion of Wisconsin's innovation assets on June 2 at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Conference in Madison. The 13th annual event, with a theme of “Nurturing...
You can be a spectator or you can be in the arena. The difference defines what it means to be an entrepreneur. Last week, I was reminded of what it means to be an entrepreneur when a good friend shared with me the pain of watching...
Calling. This word is important for both an individual and an organization. On an individual level, a calling is the driving force – moving through many roles – that brings meaning or deeper purpose to the totality of your work. I like to think of my...
The timing and technology are right to bring the power of digital sensing to the poor to improve health, safety and education. That is the animating assumption behind a new project announced on Tuesday. The initiative is led by Unicef and ARM, the British chip designer...