WHITEWATER Entrepreneurs from across Wisconsin will have the chance to network and learn valuable information from a diverse group of presenters in new and attractive industries at the state's first conference for young entrepreneurs. The Wisconsin Youth Entrepreneurs Conference will be held at the University...
As consumers seek to make their essential shopping dollars go further and save more money, Alice.com, an on-line platform that allows consumer-packaged goods companies (CPG) such as Procter & Gamble, to sell directly to consumers instead of going through retail channels like Target or...
Now that the Doyle administration has revealed the costs of keeping Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac, a predictable “Was it worth it?” reaction is rippling through the public, press and policymakers. Judged by recent incentives paid or announced by other states to retain or...
With a number of venture conferences this fall, including the upcoming MidAmerica Healthcare Venture Forum that is being held in Madison this year, several companies we are working with are preparing for investor presentations. This column covers a number of best practices for presenting...
Maybe you are a small Wisconsin business, a Wisconsin health care company, a state agency or even a university researcher and would like to glean some of the largess from the federal recovery act. Or, perhaps you have a timely project that could use funding...
Inventors seeking ways to move their product ideas forward toward commercialization found a wealth of information and resources at the eighth annual Wisconsin Innovation Service Center 2009 Ideas to Profits Conference. While five Inventors Showcase and Competition contestants received prizes of research services, prototype development and...
MADISON – Investors from Wisconsin, the Midwest and beyond will take part as speakers, panelists and “Elevator Pitch Olympics” judges in the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium, to be held Nov. 10-11 at Madison’s Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center. A number of investors will also observe...
Merck CEO `Actively Looking' for Biotech Deals...
Exactly one year after his historic election to the White House, President Barack Obama came to a racially diverse charter school in Madison Wednesday to outline his plans for education reform."The United States, a nation that has always led the way in innovation, is now...
President Obama showed up at Madison's Wright Middle School Wednesday to talk about reforming education, but that topic may not have been top of mind for everyone who came to hear him. It was the day after Democrats lost races for governor in Virginia and...