InvestMidwest Venture Capital Forum has issued an open call for companies interested in presenting their business plans before venture capitalists, corporate and private investors, and investment bankers, at their upcoming gathering April 5-6 in St. Louis....
A $130 million package of legislative incentives proposed recently by state Republicans is designed to build on efforts to transform Wisconsin’s economy into a knowledge-based, innovation economy. The package of 20 bills, dubbed “Invest Wisconsin,” seeks to encourage the creation of high-technology businesses, and is...
Pundits and marketers have been hyping “any time, anywhere” computing for years, but a popular perception remains that if you are starting a technology company, “anywhere” needs to be spittin’ distance to one of the nation’s technology centers: Silicon Valley, Seattle or Boston. You might...
Just a year after breaking ground, the Fitchburg Technology Campus is becoming a cluster for nanotechnology with two of the area’s biggest companies....
A "sister park" agreement has been announced between the UW-Madison University Research Park and the Frankfurt Biotechnology Innovation Center in Frankfurt, one of Europe's leading business hubs....
"Less than one percent of start-up companies raise venture capital," says Greg Gianforte, founder and CEO of Right Now Technologies of Bozeman, Mont. "That begs the question: What did the other 99 percent do to get started?"...
Midwest health care start-ups continued to show strength in the third quarter of 2005, attracting 21 percent more investment dollars than in the second quarter, compared to just a 4 percent rise nationally, according to the Midwest Health Care Venture Investment Report released by BioEnterprise....
A free online service, DirectorConnector, that connects businesses and non-profit organizations with potential board members is up to 500 registered users, according to the two firms that started it earlier this year....
Winslow Sargeant’s combination of academic, commercial and government experience gives him rare insight into the world of entrepreneurship and risk. His memories of growing up in Dorchester remind him that to succeed at anything, tenacity is essential. ...
“Not only is there not a lot of money out there for women, but not a lot of early stage money,” said Lauren Flanagan, founder and CEO of SCIO Corp., a Michigan financial consulting firm. Flanagan and others are hoping to turn that around. ...