Entrepreneurs

Wisconsin technology leaders hit the road
MILWAUKEE - Ask any successful entrepreneur what the #1 priority for a small business is and you will get one answer: SALES. Despite this, sales force structure and management remains probably the most neglected discipline in business school curricula...

APPLETON, WI– Nearly 60 people heard UW-Madison professor Raj Veeramani and Menasha Corp. research and development manager David Matthias stress the importance of innovation in today’s economy at the first meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network (WIN) Foundation in northeast Wisconsin....

CHICAGO – One of the American dreams has always been to build a business from scratch and sell it for a not-so-small fortune. We had this same dream in the 1990s but we wanted to speed it up so the entire thing from start-up to...

Editor’s Note: We recently had the opportunity to discuss the role of technology in state government to deliver more efficient information technology based services - internally and externally for constituents. The Governor also commented on programs to help entrepreneurs with investment funding and health insurance....

In my last column of this series, I’m going to follow my own advice and stick to my core competency: evaluating angel investment opportunities. More specifically, I’m going to provide some basic thoughts on how to avoid bad investments. After all, I often explain my...

When beginning a brand new startup or building a small company, entrepreneurs need to fully understand the challenges of attracting, and more importantly, keeping good employees. Providing the economic incentive for all employees to share in the wealth-building process has been the cornerstone for many...

Over the years I have watched many people succeed and some fail at starting new businesses. As they begin to define their ideas on “how and why” the world needs their new product or service, certain personality characteristics begin to emerge regarding how they approach...