After hunkering down for some time and receiving some initial responses from the flurry of grant applications that were submitted in the Spring of this year, many Midwest early stage technology companies are once again beginning to consider the private capital markets for funding. In...
In the early days of the modern venture capital industry, way back in the 1950s, most venture capital funds were generalists. That is, while the specific experiences and skills of the managing partners no doubt influenced the kinds of deals that interested various funds,...
A recent article in Biofuels Digest reports that in a presumably recent year the University of California system recorded royalties of $52.5 million on university research spending of almost $3 billion. The number asks whether the public is getting a fair return on its...
Smart, savvy and very possibly soon-to-be-rich women from across the county will descend on Madison at the end of September in a reality show you won't see on television. Springboard Enterprises, an organization that pairs women-led technology companies with investors, will hold a two day seminar...
For Det Ansinn, server capacity is critical. Last December, his 10-person software company, BrickSimple, released a popular application called Xbox Live Friends. that lets people use their phones to play Xbox games with each other and shows which other players are online. Requests to log...
The University of Wisconsin, Madison, is one of the country's leading centers of public biopharmaceutical research, and the campus has spawned dozens of spinout companies based on University research. Given the right conditions that growth could, over the next five years, support the emergence...
We are living in an era of increased regulation and renewed enforcement efforts, especially for public companies as well as private companies in industries associated with the 2008 meltdown. Governmental regulation and enforcement is typically reactionary in nature rather than proactive. Could you imagine where...
Regardless of whether they are called university spinoffs, spinouts, or just plain start-ups, the University of Utah sure has a lot of them: 23 that started just last year— that's second best of all universities in the nation. Think about how impressive that is....
To build a viable, dynamic and sustainable culture of entrepreneurship in Wisconsin, we need to include programs and opportunities for our youth. Stimulating the entrepreneurial fire in our youth helps to position the state for future growth, while creating immediate opportunities for youth to thrive...
Joe Kremer, director of the Wisconsin Angel Network, will discuss trends in the angel investment market – and how those developments may affect entrepreneurs – at the Thursday, Aug. 13 luncheon meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network in Milwaukee....