Entrepreneurs

The need for data center space is becoming more acute in the Midwest, and a Wisconsin company is trying to meet that need with a new data center in Eau Claire. Wisconsin Independent Network, part of the Communications Management Group, has opened a 4,200-square-foot data...

Two Wisconsin organizations, University of Wisconsin-Parkside and the Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation, have been honored for inovaDRIVE, a technology-based economic development program that helps entrepreneurs compete in the global marketpalce. The organizations were recognized by the International Economic Development Council....

Just as Wisconsin is gaining some traction in the venture capital chase, a federal bill threatens to make the state less attractive to private-equity investors, particularly from outside Wisconsin, opines columnist Tom Still. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, Still notes that the bill is...

An annual awards program that honors the most creative, cutting-edge implementations of enterprise technology has ranked a project from CUNA Mutual Group in its Top 100 for 2007. InfoWorld, in fact, ranks CUNA's new Claims Express system in its Top 10 along with projects from...

Boardroom credibility comes only with bottom-line results, and Runzheimer's Todd Oberg has plenty of opportunity to produce. Oberg, vice president of information technology for the Wisconsin-based management consulting firm, is at the forefront of transformation involving the firm's total-mobility program. ...

A new study on angel investments cites both the risk and reward associated with such investments in start-up companies. The national study indicates that angel investors taking part in organized angel groups achieve an average 27 percent rate of return, but investors also lost their...

Workaholics have been around since well before the likes of Ebenezer Scrooge spent his Christmas days at the office counting coins and harassing Bob Cratchit. But according to work-life researchers, a new workplace phenomenon called "extreme jobs" is emerging that is pushing the rigors of...

The present looks good but the future is more of a mystery to Wisconsin biotechnology executives, according to the first quarterly survey of the biotech and medical device industry. The survey, conducted by the Wisconsin Biotechnology and Medical Device Association and the state Department of...