What do these companies have in common? Pinterest, Uber, Dropbox, Slack, WhatsApp, Airbnb, Square, Stripe, Google and PayPal. (Hint: It’s more than just tech.) The first eight companies on the list were born during the Great Recession of the late 2000s and the other two during...
The 18th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest is accepting entries online for the 2021 competition through 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, 2021. The contest is designed to encourage entrepreneurs in the startup stage of tech-based businesses in Wisconsin. The contest links up-and-coming entrepreneurs with a...
Pablo Dale, Christian Hong and Andy Liu, who will be seniors this fall at Brookfield Academy, are the grand prize winners in Wisconsin YES!, a statewide youth business plan contest for students in middle and high school. Dale, Hong and Liu’s company, unRaveled, is a tangle-free...
Jeff Rusinow figures he has reviewed more than 2,000 startup decks and met for hundreds of coffees with Wisconsin entrepreneurs over the past 19 years. Rusinow founded Milwaukee’s first angel network, Silicon Pastures, in 2000. At the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference put on by the Wisconsin Technology Council in Milwaukee...
A Stoughton-based “voice assistant” platform that provides hands-free documentation to child care centers took home the grand prize in the 17th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. Patricia Wooldridge, Brent Brenner and others created GrowthChart Records to dramatically cut time and effort devoted to record-keeping by...
Many startups face similar struggles as they work to define their own brand, develop products and secure investment. But as one Milwaukee investor points out, not all entrepreneurs have access to the same resources and support systems. Dana Guthrie is the managing director and founder of...
Panelists representing some of the state's largest corporate VC funds spoke yesterday at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Conference in Milwaukee. "I have a small team, but I can tap into the vast resources of my company," said Craig Schedler, venture partner with Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures. The fund...
More than 690 commercial and recreational boating deaths have occurred since 2015 because of collisions at sea, according to the co-founder of Skip & Co. Maritime, Robert Carsey of Fond du Lac. He says recent investigations of these accidents have revealed a large operator training gap,...
Milwaukee’s startup and tech community is steadily becoming more diverse as people from various backgrounds find their place in the metro area’s evolving economy. That’s according to Elmer Moore Jr., executive director of Scale Up Milwaukee, an organization working to foster growth in the area’s business...
Needle disposal has long been a source of frustration for users, especially at the institutional level. Individuals or institutions traditionally collect and store used hypodermic needles in “sharps” disposal containers. Those containers are transported offsite, where heat is used to sterilize the biohazard and destroy the...