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Wisconsin Governor Certifies PerBlue as Qualified New Business Venture

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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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PerBlue Raises $800,000 Angel Round from Golden Angels and West Coast Angels

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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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Nevermind the Valley: Here’s Madison feature on Read Write Web

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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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Welcome Bendyworks!

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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 …

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PerBlue on LiveWire 2.0

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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 …

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Dane 101 features Capital Entrepreneurs, Forward Tech Conference

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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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Forward Technology Festival Starts Today!

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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, …

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GeoHuddle Featured as part of GE Ecomagination Challenge

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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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Capital Entrepreneurs Featured in Techcrunch

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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 …

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Networked Insights Launches Analytics Platform for Facebook

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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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Capital Entrepreneurs and Merlin Mentors Joint Meeting a Success

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Last night, MERLIN Mentors and Capital Entrepreneurs held a joint event at the University Research Park.  It was a great opportunity for CE members to meet successful entrepreneurs in MERLIN Mentors and bridge the gap between some of the newer startups in town with those who have been successful in the past. Entrustet, PerBlue, GoBuzz, …

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