Venture Capital

Three Wisconsin companies raised $7.87 million in venture capital during the third quarter, surpassing the total raised in the second quarter as well as in the same period a year ago. Through three quarters, Wisconsin companies have raised $13.87 million, well below the $38.78 million that...

This week I am attending the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009 for the 12th consecutive year. It is one of the largest and most important annual gatherings of CIOs and senior IT leaders. There are many influential CIO's & senior-level IT executives with ties to Wisconsin including...

The latest figures from the National Science Foundation confirm what many people in Wisconsin already knew: the UW-Madison is one of the nation's leading research universities. The numbers also underscore the fact that academic research and development isn't confined to the labs and research offices...

The University of Wisconsin System was awarded nearly $83 million n stimulus funds, with UW - Madison commanding the majority of that money, receiving $75.5 million for its 236 projects. With more than 800 grant applications submitted from UW - System faculty and staff, Director...

Things are getting better for entrepreneurs, according to data released Tuesday by information services provider Chubby Brain. Venture investment hit a multi-year low in the first quarter of 2009, reaching $5.3 billion in the second quarter and jumping a respectable 14 percent to $6.1 billion in...

Whether looking for an investor, a joint venture or joint development partner, a strategic hire, or your next CEO, a warm introduction is almost always better than a cold call or solicitation. But the quality and effectiveness of warm introductions vary considerably. In...

In a study published October 11 in Nature Medicine, a team of researchers at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have shown a high-speed method for analyzing the stubbornly complex MHC genes in three species of monkeys. Viruses such as...

Why is the stress of putting together the board presentation so intense? "What makes board presentations so challenging to prepare for is not the deluge of data that gets assembled for discussion," says Anett D. Grant, president of Executive Speaking, Inc. "Executives at this level are...

Hong Kong is emerging from the global financial crisis in relatively good shape thanks to a combination of hard work, entrepreneurial spirit and the innovative use of Information Technology (IT), according Sunny Lee, the President of the Hong Kong Computer Society. It is clear that using...

Twenty-five percent of today's top business-process outsourcers (BPO) will not exist in the next three years according to a research note released yesterday by Gartner. They reported that economic pressures, poorly conceived contracts and the inability to adapt to standardized delivery models are all having...