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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Fresh off raising $800,000 in angel investment, Capital Entrepreneurs member company PerBlue is at it again. Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle certified PerBlue, making it eligible for 25% tax credits for angels investing in the company. From the link: Governor Jim Doyle announced today that PerBlue, Inc., Waunakee, Dane County, has received the Qualified New Business …
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Capital Entrepreneurs founding member PerBlue just closed an $800,000 angel round led by Tim Keane‘s Golden Angels out of Milwaukee and other angel groups from San Francisco and Seattle. PerBlue is a social gaming company that creates mobile games for iPhone, Android and other mobile platforms. Their flagship product, Parallel Kingdom, has over 200k users …
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Capital Entrepreneurs members Networked Insights was featured in USA Today talking about valuations of NFL teams based on online mentions and online activity. From the link: Which NFL team is creating the most buzz on Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets? It’s the Dallas Cowboys, so-called America’s Team. What may surprise you is that …
Longtime CE members Dan Gordon and Michael Fenchel recently launched their website for their company Momenta Technologies. Check out the members page to see their logo, along with the rest of the CE members. From their site: Our dream is to use the power of the Internet to make watching television an interactive and social …
Heidi Allstop of Student Spill and Steve Faulkner of GeoHuddle were both interviewed for In Business Magazine’s weekly podcast. You can listen to them in full over on the In Business Website.
Audrey Watters of Read Write Web is doing a series about entrepreneurship outside Silicon Valley and Madison was the most recent featured city. The article called Nevermind the Valley: Here’s Madison talks about Capital Entrepreneurs, Merlin Mentors, The University of Wisconsin and a bunch of CE member companies including Entrustet, Student Spill and Networked Insights. …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member Jeremy Craine and his company FurnishU were featured in the Capital Times today. FurnishU buys used furniture from students on campus and then resells the furniture to other students. From the link: For my part, I was interested as soon as I learned that Crane, as a student, started a business derived …
Bradley Grzesiak from Bendyworks is the newest member of Capital Entrepreneurs. Bendyworks is a software firm focusing on mobile and web application development. They deliver value constantly with a unique process that allows our clients to manage and direct their project at all times. It’s always fun when more people decide to join, so if …
We’re excited to announce that Boardman Law Firm has joined Capital Entrepreneurs as its 4th sponsor. They are now listed on our resources page, which also includes helpful startup tips and Madison, WI networking opportunities. Boardman Law Firm is one of the largest firms here in town and we’re really happy to be able to …
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Entrustet, which allows people to make last wishes for their digital assets, was featured on DotWeekly, a blog about domain names. From the link: This really is a slick service and it is free! This type of service is very important to domain name investors! With domain parking accounts, registrar accounts, affiliate accounts, Paypal, Escrow, …
PerBlue’s Parallel Kingdom was on LiveWire 2.0. From the link: Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is the reference for application developers at the moment, as the App Store has reached critical mass. The natural inclination, then, is the subject of the iPhone – and by extension, the IPAD. “The process of Apple’s approval to enter the App …
Dane101 featured the Forward Technology Conference and Capital Entrepreneurs in a post last week. From the link: San Francisco. New York. Chicago. These are the cities normally associated with startups and entrepreneurs. You may be surprised to learn, then, that Forbes magazine recently named Madison the seventh-most innovative city in the country. Local companies Alice …
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The 9th anniversary edition of High Tech Happy Hour has kicked off Madison’s first Forward Technology Festival, a series of events over the next eleven days designed to encourage interaction and collaboration across the area’s technology, business and creative communities. Other Festival events include the Capital Entrepreneur’s open social, the Forward Technology Conference, Madison BarCamp, …
Capital Entrepreneurs member GeoHuddle is currently in 4th place in the GE Ecomagination Challenge, which is one of the premier contests for alternative energy projects in the United States. From the link: About seven months ago, University of Wisconsin graduate students Steve Faulkner and Michael Major started GeoHuddle, a company that develops ground-source heat pumps, …
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Forward Technology Conference is coming on August 27th, 2010 at the Memorial Union. FTC 2010 is [T]he summer’s best opportunity to spend a day networking with some of the area’s top entrepreneurs and hearing from experts on a wide range of topics relevant to your technology business. Whether you’re thinking about launching a startup business …
Steve Faulkner of GeoHuddle was invited to write a guest post about startup culture in Madison. He wrote an article called Wisconsin: Beer, Cheese and…Startups, which included Capital Entrepreneurs, GeoHuddle, Networked Insights, Entrustet, Virent, PerBlue and Alice. It’s great to see Madison being recognized as one of the new, up and coming hotbeds of entrepreneurship …
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet was featured on Dane 101 about how to protect digital assets in estate plans. From the link: Nathan Lustig, co-founder (along with Jesse Davis) of the Madison-based company Entrustet, notes that these ephemeral bits of data are in fact real assets. Some, like PayPal accounts or web pages, have monetary …
Capital Entrepreneurs Member company Entrustet was featured in the Brunei Times in an article about the need to appoint a digital executor to manage one’s digital assets when they pass away. From the link: NOT so long ago, we had safes and locked filing cabinets filled with our wills, financial information and important documents locked …
Capital Entrepreneurs member Networked Insights was featured on Media Post because it launched SocialSenseFB, its analytics platform for Facebook Fan pages. From the Media Post link: Putting a price on Facebook Fan pages to monitor return on investments (ROIs) for campaigns takes more than reading a post or monitoring clicks. Networked Insights earlier this week …
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