We’ve got an action packed week of events coming your way! We’re bringing two of the premiere startup events in the world to Madison, along with multiple other startup focused events, and it’s all happening April 25 – May 6, 2012. Capital Entrepreneurs Week is anchored by Startup Weekend and 3 Day Startup. The events …
CE member Codiqa will surpass 10,000 registered users this week, despite being rejected from Y Combinator last fall. Codiqa builds drag-and-drop jQuery Mobile prototyping tools and allows users to share working mobile app prototypes with a team. One month ago Codiqa left private beta and launched an embedded version directly on the jQuery Mobile homepage, …
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Capital Entrepreneurs has recently partnered with the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) to promote their #FixYoungAmerica campaign to address a single, nagging question in the U.S.: How do we overcome the twin epidemics of youth unemployment and underemployment? With youth unemployment at a 60-year high and student-loan debt nearing the $1 trillion mark, can anything be …
Multiple Capital Entrepreneurs members were recently named to the InBusiness 40 Under 40 list, as well as the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s Forward Under 40 list for 2012. Forrest Woolworth of mobile and social gaming startup PerBlue was the youngest person named to the 2012 InBusiness 40 Under 40 class. He is an original team member …
CE member SnowShoe launched a smartphone app designed to revolutionize customer loyalty programs by replacing the “You can never find it when you need it†coffee shop punch card. SnowShoe has teamed up with Madison based Cupcakes-A-Go-Go Cafe, to release “App-A-Go-Goâ€, to replace traditional punch cards. The app is the first to use a patent-pending …
Madison made the short list of the top 12 Places to Live and Work as a Young Entrepreneur from Under30CEO.com. In the article, CE’s Nathan Lustig highlighted Madison’s vibrant startup ecosystem fueled by CE, Merlin Mentors, and the Forward Technology Festival. We couldn’t agree more!
CE member Networked Insights has completed their initial analysis of over 1.6 million Tweets relating to the Super Bowl. Just what was everyone Tweeting about? Not football. Nearly 75% of all Tweets were about the commercials and Madonna’s halftime show. Check out their full results on ReadWriteWeb.
PerBlue’s Parallel Kingdom recently passed the 1 million players milestone. Parallel Kingdom was the first location-based RPG on iOS and Android, and originally launched in 2008. The game has since expanded to the Web and is available on Facebook, Chrome, and Kongregate. It was also a recent finalist for “Best Mobile Game” in the Mashable …
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CE member Murfie.com recently completed a funding round of $1.4 million, led by the DaneVest Tech Fund. Murfie was also selected as one of only 13 companies from around the world to participate in the TechStars Winter 2012 Boston Program. The TechStars program is considered the top accelerator in the world, and Murfie will receive …
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The year of 2011 saw a lot of growth in many ways for the Capital Entrepreneurs community. Existing Capital Entrepreneurs companies grew revenue, employees, and expertise. Many new companies were launched, and the entire scene as a whole saw a lot of positive growth. Madison was rated as the most educated city in America, one …
The year of 2011 was a fast paced and exciting one at PerBlue. Our company and products both saw huge growth, and we transitioned from a small startup to a growing company. We started the year with 12 full time employees in a brand new office space that had so much room we didn’t know …
For Networked Insights, 2011 was year of significant milestones, growth and validation. We received marketplace support from clients, the media and the investor community. We cleared a number of hurdles that startup endeavors face during their early stages. And we entered 2012 with incredible optimism about the path ahead. For the third straight year, Networked …
Looking back, Murfie had a roller-coaster year. (We know, we know…it’s a tired cliché.) Like any first-year startup, we had our ups and downs, but we made it through without falling out of the car. We tried to ride high, with our hands up in the air. We tried to keep pace. We tried to …
2011 has been quite a ride for Spill. We’re so grateful for the people who have helped us along the way. In a matter of 12 months, the team members of Spill, Inc. have: Prevented 17 potential college student suicides. Grown from one person to 6 team members, filling voids in technology, business development, data …
Our first year in business was eventful and exciting, to say the least. After incorporating in late fall of 2010, we successfully built and launched the beta Fishidy.com platform, a location-specific social network dedicated to anglers. We hired a team to work on Fishidy, full-time, and developed lasting relationships with some well-known brands and companies …
The year of 2011 was a building year for Optimal Media Group as we completed our second year of operations and are maturing as a company. We saw a steady growth in our core product, the city specific NightOut website, of 5 to 10 new cities per month which we project to continue and increase …
2012 To bring us into 2012, we’ll be looking back at 2011. There were a ton of amazing things that happened in 2011 with CE and we’d like to share them. Next week we’ll kick off a series of posts from CE companies summarizing their year in review, and we’ll cap it off with a …
PerBlue co-founder and CEO (and CE co-founder) Justin Beck was featured recently on Tech Cocktail. Tech Cocktail covers startups, entrepreneurs, and apps. The article highlights Justin’s journey from student to business owner, and includes insight on his experience building PerBlue. The article even includes a shout-out to Capital Entrepreneurs. “The way I see my CEO …
Capital Entrepreneurs and Y Combinator alum Ilya Lichtenstein’s latest venture, MixRank, recently raised $1.5 million from 500 Startups, Mark Cuban, and more. MixRank is a tool for online advertisers to more effectively optimize wordings and approaches of display ads. It allows advertisers to see exactly where their competitors are buying traffic and which ad copy …
Guest post from Michael Fenchel of 7Cees. Michael and his team recently departed Madison on a 1 year journey around the country in a mobile-bus-studio. I’ve been away from Madison about a month now on a journey across the country with 7Cees’ mobile bus studio. Even in just that short time I’ve begun to realize …
