Entrepreneurs

Fiserv has announced the hiring of Richard Jones as executive vice president and chief information officer. Jones, who will report to the CEO, will have oversight responsibility for global infrastructure, technology governance, and technology resources. ...

Madison Development Corp. has announced a second round of funding for its Venture Debt Program, bringing the fund's total capital to $4.274 million. The fund was established to help technology businesses, and among its first-round borrowers were NeoClone, GenTel Biosciences, and Networked Insights....

First thing we do is ignore all the experts, or at least take what they say with a grain of salt, according to columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, a follow up to his recent column on a lackluster field of presidential...

The Madison-based radiopharmaceutical firm Cellectar has raised $13 million in a private offering led by Venture Investors. The funds will be used for a Phase 1 clinical trial that could validate the company's lead oncology candidate, a cancer-fighting molecule that has shown promise in preclinical...

Gov. Jim Doyle's new plans to stimulate angel and venture investment and manufacturing innovation received high marks from members of the Wisconsin Technology Council Board. The board, comprised of business leaders and state officials, voted Tuesday to endorse the plan in concept. ...

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the licensing arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has announced a licensing agreement with the California firm BioTime. The agreement involves patents and patent applications related to human embryonic stem cell technology created by professor James Thomson. ...

Business plans are a critical tool in the proper planning and launch of new ventures, and they will be the focal point of the Northeast Wisconsin Business Plan Competition. However, time is running out as entries for the contest are due by 5 p.m. on...

Like many other aspects of personal finance, the decision to sell your business will depend largely on tax implications. As columnist and attorney Joe Boucher explains in this edition of Early Stage, business owners face a choice between selling their ownership interests or selling their...

Technically skilled people can be lone wolves and tend to have no appetite for managing people, let alone setting business strategy as part of upper management. How, then, do the chief information officers that manage them keep them motivated when they advance to that point...