After winning this year’s Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest, SixLine Semiconductor CEO Katy Jinkins is focused on proving the company’s technology and building industry relationships. This Middleton-based company is developing advanced electronics components using carbon nanotubes — very small materials that can be incorporated into wireless...
In the latest episode of “WisBusiness.com: The Show,” Troy Tesmer, co-founder and president of Soul Mobility, talks about the young company’s category winning entry in the 2023 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. Soul Mobility won the Life Sciences category winner with its system for quickly...
Startups developed at UW–Madison were recognized last week at the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest award ceremony during the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference in Milwaukee. The pitch competition is designed to encourage entrepreneurs in the startup stages of tech-based businesses. Five of the final 13 companies...
Good help is hard to find. For those in the hospitality industry, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has made it even harder. For Bekki Yang, chief executive officer of West-Allis based startup WorkShift, this lesson was learned early on in the process of running her own catering...
SixLine Semiconductor, a Middleton-based company, won the grand prize of the Diligent Baker’s Dozen, this year’s business plan contest for the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference. The Diligent Baker’s Dozen contest held Thursdayat the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee is a star of the annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference, an event hosted...
SixLine Semiconductor, a Middleton-based company working with tiny but powerful conductive materials for wireless devices and computing, is the grand prize winner of the 20th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. SixLine wants to enable high-performance electronics based on aligned carbon nanotubes – which are 50,000...
The top 13 finalists in this year’s Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest are developing diverse startup ideas ranging from a cancer care decision-making tool to advanced components for next-generation electronics. These and other ideas were highlighted yesterday during the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference, hosted in Milwaukee by...
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin should place more faith in its young, homegrown companies. One need not look very far to draw that conclusion. A quick tour across the Midwest reveals that many nearby states are investing their futures, sometimes with little more collateral than...
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. -- The average American might be excused for believing the economy is headed off a steep cliff. For starters, economists keep telling them so. Many practitioners of the “the dismal science” -- how my favorite economist refers to economics -- have been...
The Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest is back for its 20th year of helping entrepreneurs prepare to launch their business. A total of 150 entries have been narrowed down to 13 finalists who will all present their businesses to a panel of judges on May 31. Finalists from southeastern...