Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet was selected to speak on a Future 15 panel at South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas on March 13th. Entrustet‘s founders will speak about the need to protect digital assets (any online account or any file on your computer) and how estate planning lawyers can help their clients incorporate …
Parallel Kingdom, by Capital Entrepreneurs member company PerBlue, recently registered their 100,000th user. Congrats to the PerBlue team on their continued success! From PerBlue’s blog: …Parallel Kingdom recently achieved a long time milestone. We now have over 100,000 PK user accounts. That’s a lot of PK’ers from all around the world. Some other fun numbers: …
Dan Neely, CEO of Capital Entrepreneurs member Networked Insights was quoted in Brandweek. From the article: Marketing and buying likes at socialboosting.com is important because it helps you sell your products or services. The bottom line of any business is to make money and marketing is an essential channel to reach that end goal. Expert …
Last week Capital Entrepreneurs member Networked Insights led a group of entrepreneurs at an Accelerate Madison event called Entrepreneurs vs. Economy. The presenters included Planet Propaganda founder John Besmer, StudyBlue CEO Becky Splitt, Networked Insights VP Brian Johnson and Netconcepts (now Covario) founder Stephan Spencer. These entrepreneurial presentations are available for free online, so check …
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Parallel Kingdom, from Capital Entrepreneurs member PerBlue, was featured on GamerRoad. From the article: …you will want to download a little game called Parallel Kingdom. P.K. is an MMORPG style game that uses Google Maps and the phone GPS to show your current position. The in game world is the real world. You move your …
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Networked Insights was featured on Mediapost today. From the link: Rather than having the ability to simply recognize signals from noise across social media, Networked Insights wants to assure that clients can identify the conversations and what each means. The company does this through its analytics platform SocialSense. The platform mines …
Parallel Kingdom, by Capital Entrepreneurs member company PerBlue, was featured in a Mashable blog post entitled Three Of The Best Free Multiplayer Android Games. From the post: Parallel Kingdom, which has been available on Android and the iPhone for some time, gives new meaning to persistent multiplayer online gaming. The game world is overlaid on …
Capital Entrepreneurs member Entrustet was mentioned in the Washington Post today in a front page story about the digital assets industry. From the article: Internet experts and estate planners say a cybercrisis is brewing because popular Internet services have policies that, barring an order from a court, forbid accessing or transferring accounts — including recovering …
Former UW football player and former US Marine is leading a humanitarian mission to Haiti providing emergency medical relief. He was fed up with the beaucracy and red tape involved with helping Haitians, so he formed his own effort, Team Rubicon, comprised of doctors, nurses Milwaukee firefighters, former Marines and other aid workers. Team Rubicon, …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member City Dictionary was featured on Wisconsin Eye. You can watch the video interview by following this link. Here’s a summary from Wisconsin Eye: CityDictionary.com is a Web site that dishes up local culture and language for various cities. Based in Madison, it allows users to define a city in their own words. …
PerBlue’s location-based mmorpg, Parallel Kingdom was nominated for “Best App Ever” in four different categories. From the site: In December the Best App Ever Awards held nominations through online voting. The Parallel Kingdom community showed their dedication and as a result, PK is a finalist in FOUR categories! I’ll say it again, our players never …
Capital Entrepreneurs member Thomas Carmona, CEO of City Dictionary, was featured by In Business Magazine as the Executive of the Week. From the interview: How long have you been involved with City Dictionary and how would you describe your present role at the company? I have been working on City Dictionary ever since late 2007 …
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The Govorner’s Business Plan Competition is an annual business plan competition run by the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Technology Council. With a grand prize of $50,000, it is a great way for Wisconsin companies to get exposure and potentially win some money. Approaching The deadline for entries is January 31, 2010 and it …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member PerBlue had their flagship product Parallel Kingdom featured in HTC Source. From the article: …the first release of the app had me hooked from day one. I would find myself waking through the skyways in Minneapolis on my lunch breaks just so I could discover new areas on the map so I …
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet launched its premotional site today. Â From the site: Entrustet is a secure, organizational tool that brings together people like you, estate planning lawyers and the companies that provide online accounts and memberships. Entrustet allows users to maintain a secure portfolio of online assets, nominate heirs and manage asset distribution and …
Capital Entrepreneurs member company PerBlue was featured in a story on Zmogo to talk about PerBlue’s success creating a virtual economy in its game Parallel Kingdom. From the article: In its short history, the Parallel Kingdom franchise has pioneered several firsts: first real-time MMORPG for iPhone and Android, and the first location-based MMORPG on iPhone …
Bryon Shannon was interviewed here about his experience starting Wisconsin Relic as a student at the University of Wisconsin. Here’s an excerpt, click through to the full interview here: Bryon Shannon is the founder of Wisconsin Relic, an apparel company that he started in January 2009. Bryon graduated with a degree in Management and Real …
Member company City Dictionary has partnered with Broadcast Interactive Media to launch its service in 80 news markets around the country. From City Dictionary’s press release: Broadcast Interactive Media (BIM) today unveiled a new partnership between Social Media Platform, YouNewsâ„¢ and hyper-local content provider City Dictionary (CityDictionary.com). The two Madison, WI-based companies have combined forces …
Member company Networked Insights was featured in Business Watch Magazine and includes a Q&A with founder Dan Neely. From the article: Perched high above downtown Madison, Networked Insights, mines 3.5 million conversations a day, totaling over 1 billion annually. Using proprietary software, CEO and founder Dan Neely and his staff are monitoring our online social …
Capital Entrepreneurs welcomes new member company GuruCapus. From their website: GuruCampus was founded by college seniors to highlight the events, ideas, trends, and students that shape campus culture. We give students a national voice in the fields of current events, entertainment, humor, sports, music, politics, and research. By covering these topics, our goal is to …
