The Capital Entrepreneurs Open Social will be this Wednesday August 24th from 7-9pm at Brocach. Our open social is part of the Forward Technology Festival, a 10 day series of events highlighting technology and entrepreneurship in Madison. The event is free and is one of the best ways to meet and network with some of …
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Note: This post originally appeared on Nathan Lustig’s Staying out of the Cubicle and is being reposted here. I’m excited to be working with Matt Younkle and Bryan Chan again this year to help put on Forward Technology Festival for the second year in a row. Last year was a huge success, and I’m really …
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Spinback, founded by Capital Entrepreneurs alumni Corey Capasso and Andrew Ferenci, along with fellow Badger Dan Reich, was acquired today by Buddy Media for an undisclosed amount of money. Capasso and Ferenci were two of the original founders of Capital Entrepreneurs and moved to New York to ply their trade after graduating from the University …
Heidi Allstop of Spill will be moving to Boston this summer after being selected for TechStars. Techstars is one of the top two seed accelerators in the United States and just closed it’s newest class. Heidi will be joining 10 other startups that made the cut. Techstars startups have an incredibly high track record of …
Capital Entrepreneurs member Entrustet was featured on CNN in an article titled Do Web Users Fear the Digital Reaper? From the link: Lustig is confident that there will be a shift in attitude that will manifest itself in the healthy profits (he jokes that his company’s unofficial motto is: “Everybody uses the Internet and everybody …
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet was featured in the New York Times magazine’s online edition today in an article called Cyberspace when you’re Dead. The print edition will run on Sunday. The article follows the threads of digital death and digital identity and talks about Entrustet’s digital death industry. From the link: The founders of …
CE member company Entrustet was featured in TechCrunch about their decision to travel to Santiago Chile as part of the Start-Up Chile program. Check out the video interview with Vivek Wadhwa for more info:
Madison social media marketing platform Shoutlet announced that they’ve raised $6m in series B funding led by American Family Insurance. Shoutlet’s platform “gives brands and agencies the tools to create, manage, and measure their entire social media communications. Companies using Shoutlet’s platform are able to better design and implement highly targeted campaigns and ultimately improve …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet moved to Santiago, Chile for 6 months for Startup Chile. Jesse and Nathan have been in Chile for almost two weeks now and have started to settle in. Here’s a summary of their blog posts and press coverage since they’ve moved to Chile. Wisconsin IT Startup Relocates to Chile, Celebrates …
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet was selected to be a part of Startup Chile. Startup Chile is a program started by the Chilean Government to bring 25 startups from around the world to Chile to help foster entrepreneurship.
Entrustet’s founders, Nathan Lustig and Jesse Davis, will be moving to Santiago November 15th to continue to run Entrustet. As part of Startup Chile, the Entrustet team will receive a $40,000 subsidy, free office space and connections into the Chilean entrepreneurship community.
Forrest Woolworth of PerBlue emailed me today to let me know that they just launched their third age of their popular mobile game Parallel Kingdom. Parallel Kingdom is a mobile, location based, MMORPG, or Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. PerBlue recently closed an $800,000 funding round and has been using the money to continue to grow their flagship game, Parallel Kingdom.
Capital Entrepreneurs member UlluTek was selected to present at the Early Stage Symposium next week in Madison.
Capital Entrepreneurs member Steve Faulkner will be featured on This Week in Startups with Jason Calacanis in 15 minutes, at 3:30 central time. Check out This Week In Startups and watch live to see Steve in the Shark Tank pitching his new startup Real Time Txts. Steve will be giving a 60 second pitch and …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member Greg Tracy’s new startup Asthmapolis took first prize in Twilio and Union Square Ventures’ contest to create the best app on Twilio. They beat out 50 other startups with “a terrifically broad range of applications, from fun simple hacks to ambitious projects,” writes Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures.
Real Time Txts, a new business by Capital Entrepreneurs members Steve Faulkner and Tyler Stubbe launched last night. Real Time Txts sends you text messages for free drinks at selected bars in Madison.
It’s sort of a like Groupon, but texted to your phone and for now, it’s just for bars. You can sign up on the Real Time Txts website by giving them your phone number. On days where there is a deal, you get a text a few hours before the free drink special is going to start, with location and time.
Capital Entrepreneurs member Chris Meyer emailed me today to share that Sector 67 is hosting the grand opening this Friday. Sector 67 is Madison’s first hackerspace, which is a shared space “dedicated to providing members the opportunity to work on tomorrow’s technology; to build, collaborate, learn, and teach about next generation devices.” Hackerspaces have been …
Capital Entrepreneurs member Entrustet was featured on Mashable in an article titled 7 Resources for Handling Digital Life After Death by Erica Swallow. From the link: Entrustet is a free service that enables an account holder to pass on digital assets to up to 10 designated heirs and one executor, who is in charge of …
Capital Entrepreneurs member GoBuzz alerted me that they’ve just launched their free email alert system this past week. “The GoBuzz system is designed to help professionals develop business relationships and strengthen industry knowledge,” says cofounder Dan Voell. Dan tells me that the software allows users to set up customized alerts which monitor industry, topic, and …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member Entrustet was featured on My Life Scoop in an article written by Mashable’s Erica Swollow titled 7 ways to handle digital life after death. From the link: Entrustet is a free service that enables an account holder to pass on digital assets to up to 10 designated heirs and one executor, who …
Entrustet participated in the Web 2.0 Startup Showcase in New York City on Wednesday. The showcase brought 29 of the most interesting startups in the US into one room for an hour and a half of pitching to the Web 2.0 audience. Tim O’Rielly, Fred Wilson and the crowd each picked winners to go on …
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