January 22 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Tom Still, Tech Council president, Mark Ehrmann, Quarles & Brady and Tech Council board member, and Earl Humphrey, SCORE Wisconsin will offer an overview of the contest and the benefits of participating, as well as answer attendees’ questions.6 p.m. – Networking 6:30 p.m....
Tom Still, Tech Council president and Erin Ogden, Ogden Glazer + Schaefer, will offer an overview of the contest and the benefits of participating, as well as answer attendees’ questions. Join us at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 21, at StartingBlock to learn more about the 2020...
MADISON, Wis. – More than seven out of every 10 finalists in the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest since 2012 are still in business, a strong survival rate that speaks to the contest’s role in helping startup companies succeed over time. Results of research by the...
MADISON – The 17th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest is accepting entries online for the 2020 competition until 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. The contest is designed to encourage entrepreneurs in the startup stage of tech-based businesses in Wisconsin. The contest links up-and-coming entrepreneurs...
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,...