How a $9 computer could change the way we think about computing For $9, you will soon be able to buy an insanely cheap computer the size of a credit card that runs Linux and comes with a 1 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB...
Traditional Retirement is being replaced by a Third Act; and it could be the best chapter of your life, but only if you plan for it. Here's how. There's no escaping entrepreneurship, at least not for long; you may get to the point where...
Last night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, former HP CEO Carly Fiorina addressed the first mistake her campaign made -- not buying carlyfiorina.org. It is slightly embarrassing. The person who owns the domain has filled the page with 30,000 frowning emoticons, one for each person...
Six game-changing forces are driving a new era of entrepreneurship and opportunity globally. How many of them are you tapping into? There's a raging debate about the future of small business. On one side is a mountain of data that indicates entrepreneurship is slowing. On the...
Andy Shrago, the co-manager of Wisconsin Investment Partners, wasn’t too surprised by the news that angel investors in the five Great Lakes states that include Wisconsin led the nation in 2014 in terms of total dollars invested. “I know some people on the outside might...
The CFO-CIO relationship is becoming increasingly bumpy. Executives who have worked in both finance and technology offer advice on smoothing things out. Last summer, a joint survey by Gartner and the Financial Executives Research Foundation found that 42% of IT organizations report directly to the CFO....
These seven behaviors threaten to stop innovation dead in its tracks. I call these the innovation killers. The innovation killers are almost always neatly disguised as protectors of the organization. Few people use these behaviors to try to kill innovation outright. Their intentions are always good...
MADISON - A statewide panel of judges have selected 26 entries to advance to Phase 2 of Wisconsin YES!, a youth business plan contest for students in middle school and high school. Students submitted their science- and tech-based 250-word business summaries...
Negotiation may well be the single most important and yet least understood business and life skill. Most people see negotiation as a conflict between adversaries, a way to one-up an opponent through manipulation. With over 30 years of running businesses, I can tell you that...
I have had the privilege of knowing the folks at Aver Informatics since the team consisted of the two founders and the plan was on the back of an envelope. It has been quite a ride over the last few years, a ride that,...