Start Up Wisconsin

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 [...]

Tech Upgrade, Inc has two new openings this coming month and we thought we  would share with the ‘Start Up Wisconsin’ Community.  One position is for students and the other position is for a more a more experienced applicant.
Check out :
Tech Upgrade Careers

Here is an entrepreneur interview video series made in Milwaukee:

ActionsTalk #5 - Comet Branding from ActionsTalk on Vimeo.
Visit Actionstalk.com for more interviews.

Here is another interesting group which meets in Milwaukee. The concept is simple:
Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.
But as we all know, give a mike to a designer (especially [...]

Here is a great story about how to get PR for your startup:
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/8/jason-calacanis-on-how-to-get-pr-for-your-startup-fire-your-pr-company

I met Jon Fisher while working for the Golden Angels Network. I plan to be first in line for his book coming to stores soon!

Hey guys,
I don’t know who I’ve talked to about this, but in the coming months I’ll be doing a critical look at a lot of different things in Milwaukee. Everything from neighborhoods, real estate, activities/clubs and the business environment.
I’ll be spending almost a week in MKE at the end of the month , [...]