Entrepreneurs

After Andrea Rodriguez lost her job last fall, she put away her suits. Not because she didn’t plan to keep working—she just had to seem younger. She’d been a successful sales trainer at SugarCRM, a Cupertino, Calif., company that pitches marketing and customer service software...

Like most VCs, we often review dozens of deals each week. We have developed a funnel that enables us to quickly eliminate those that do not fit our general investment criteria (e.g. industry, stage, model)....

Cimphoni is expanding its rapidly-growing technology consulting team by welcoming Sania Irwin, PhD, as Chief Innovation Officer. In this role, she is responsible for establishing business solutions focused on the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data & Analytics, and Cognitive Systems. Previously, Dr. Irwin served in...

Our greatest fear is uncertainty. We will do anything to avoid it, including lying to ourselves and trying to pretend that we can work around it by creating certainty through decisions that are based on the illusion of probability. On any given day we are all...

The latest report from the Kauffman Foundation reaffirms what most people already know: Wisconsin as a whole is not a hub for starting and growing a business. The key words there are “as a whole,” because while parts of Wisconsin are desperately short on startups and...

Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft… and now, Yahoo.The onetime leader of all things Internet is just the latest large tech company to enter the bot and messaging fray. Today, Yahoo unveiled three bots for the Kik platform: @yahoonews; @yahooweather; and @MonkeyPets, a virtual emoji-loving companion....