Entrepreneurs

The Upper Midwest, led by Chicago, can forget about hosting the Olympic Games if the region insists on being backward when it comes to high-speed broadband deployment, warns columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he points out that troubled municipal Wi-Fi projects,...

Angel investments in early-stage Wisconsin companies topped $100 million last year, but the average size of the Wisconsin angel deal - $2.2 million - has at least one observer wondering if some angels are taking the place of venture investors in follow-up rounds. Just over...

Scolding Republican critics of his biofuels program, Gov. Jim Doyle has urged the Legislature to advance a proposal to grant $30 million in state funds to companies that develop alternative energy. The proposal is stalled in the Legislature's Joint Committee on Finance. ...

The day after securing $2 million in angel funding from two Wisconsin investment funds, TrafficCast has added a transportation executive to its Board of Directors. Paul Schneider of Schneider National in Green Bay will add transportation logistics expertise to the Madison-based provider of digital traffic...

When it comes to managing e-documents, there is a legal recognition that sometimes they have to be destroyed, notes Michael Best & Friedrich attorney Juan Ramirez. As he explains in this second guest column on e-discovery, there is limited safe harbor protection in the event...

Wisconsin investment organizations have led a $2 million round of funding for the Madison-based TrafficCast International, which provides digital traffic data. The round, led by the Phenomenelle Angels Fund of Madison and the NEW Capital Fund of Appleton, will be used to ramp up technology...