Below is the article from the Milwaukee Business Times:
BizStarts Milwaukee, a nonprofit entity dedicated to fostering and promoting entrepreneurship in southeastern Wisconsin, officially launched today.
The organization wants to help launch or accelerate 50 new businesses by the end of 2010, an effort that is needed because of the relatively low numbers of new businesses created [...]
As a blog for Wisconsin entrepreneurs I could not pass up an article which equates marketing to fishing. I was “hooked” by the headline.
Advertising headlines are a lot like the elusive musky.
Fortunately – just like fishing pros use all sorts of “special tricks” to improve their musky-catching odds – copywriters use secrets of their own [...]
For all those artistic entrepreneurs make sure to check out:
Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft and Design
The movie is directed by Faythe Levine who own’s Paper Boat Boutique and Gallery in Milwaukee.
The Wisconsin Department of Commerce offers a very helpful toolkit for aspiring entrepreneurs. The kit is now available online. Toolkit
Sharendipity will be showing off their wares in the demo pit at TechCrunch50 tomorrow. I always enjoy to see Wisconsin companies making the trip out to San Fransisco. If there are any other Wisconsin companies at tc50 that I am missing please let me know.
A panel featuring a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and angel investor will tackle the topic “Great Idea or Real Business Opportunity?” to kick off the 2008-09 Gilson Discovery Series presented by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).
Scott Button, managing director Venture Investors LLC; Jan Eddy, retired president and CEO of Wingra Technologies; and Dick Leazer, principal [...]
