Last Friday was the grand opening of the Sector 67 hacker space in Madison. Â There were many members of Capital Entrepreneurs in attendance. Â Personally, I thought the event was fantastic. Great to see so many people out supporting this awesome new space in Madison. Check out their website for more information on upcoming events, otherwise …
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.
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, …
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 …
UW alum Carol Bartz has been the CEO of Yahoo! for just about a year now. She was just interviewed by Esquire in an article called “I’m Carol Bartz…Are You An Asshole?” which is an incredibly interesting read. From the article: On January 13, 2009, Carol Bartz became CEO of Yahoo! One of her first …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member Chris Meyer started Sector 67, which is a new space for people to work on tomorrow’s technology. Based off of successful models elsewhere in the world, Meyer hopes that Sector 67 will be the launching pad for more tech and engineering based business in Madison. From the site: Sector67 is a start …
Entrepreneurships comes in all shapes and sizes. This blog has focused more on the business side, but today’s post will highlight a great story of social entrepreneurship. If you wonder how to succeed you can get some of the keys from a business expert like Bob Bratt. Becky Hall is a Freshman at the University …
Capital Entrepreneurs members Nathan Lustig of Entrustet and Forrest Woolworth of PerBlue attended the Madison Economic Development Commission hearing last night to testify about the tech community’s efforts to bring Google Fiber’s test to Madison. Lustig testified on behalf of Capital Entrepreneurs and spoke about the CE website, Google Fiber Facebook fan page and the …
Help Bring Google Fiber to Madison Google is launching an experiment to bring “ultra-high speed broadband” to a trial city in the United States. The Google Fiber trial network will allow people in the test city to experience Internet speeds of 1 gigabit per second or “more than 100 times faster than what most Americans …
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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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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From Entrepreneur Magazine: “It certainly hasn’t been by accident,†says Matthew Mikolajewski, manager of the city’s office of business resources. “It has taken lots of concerted effort to grow that entrepreneurial spirit.†That includes a renewed focus on entrepreneurship by the University’s business school, the establishment of a fast-growing University research park, half a dozen …
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