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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Capital Entrepreneurs member Entrustet was featured in Forbes in an article called How To Pass On Digital Assets When You’re Gone. From the link: One way to make a difficult situation easier on your loved ones is to use the services of a company like Entrustet that allows your executor to take control of your …
PerBlue’s head of marketing Andy Gilbertson was quoted in Tech News World about Apple’s approval process for applications in the app store. From the link: “Apple’s approval process to get into the App Store can be a mysterious one with little feedback from them, and they make no guarantees about how long your app will …
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Networked Insights was featured in the New York Times this weekend in an article called Online Buzz Doesn’t Equate To Ratings. As might be expected for a series working toward its recent much-promoted finale, “Lost†below, generated the most engagement through social media of any show from February through April, according …
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Student Spill was featured on Discovering Startups. From the link: Why could Student Spill LLC be BIG? The need for mental health support services is apparent, and SPILL provides a tool that is greatly accepted and appreciated by both students and university personnel. In addition, most schools have large sums of …
Capital Entrepreneurs members Jesse Davis and Nathan Lustig of Entrustet were featured in a special section of The Wisconsin State Journal highlighting companies that are doing well in the economic recovery after the recession. From the article called Local firm offers tools to manage digital assets after people die: When you die, what happens to …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet was featured on BBC and Wired after cofounder Nathan Lustig attended the first annual Digital Death Day at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California. From the BBC article: “There’s no standard practice across the industry yet. There are no norms for how digital assets are passed on to …
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PerBlue’s location based game Parallel Kingdom was featured in UK’s The Guardian in a story called Location: Facebook edges closer, while rivals plough on. From the link: Parallel Kingdom started as a role-playing game where users had to move in the real world to move in-game. Users reluctant to leave the sofa thought that “sucked”, …
PerBlue’s Parallel Kingdom was featured on Venture Beat yesterday in a story called New Generation of Location Based Games Catches On. From the article: Then there’s Parallel Kingdom (pictured) for the iPhone and Android platforms, designed by a company called PerBlue in Madison, Wisc. It has 125,000 registered users, of which around 15,000 are active …
Capital Entrepreneurs member Entrustet was featured on Lifehacker earlier this week, follow up by an interview with founders Jesse Davis and Nathan Lustig on Fox Business Live. From the Lifehacker article titled Entrustet Secures your Accounts After Death with Legal Backing: Entrustet offers a free account that lets you set up unlimited password-protected accounts to …
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Capital Entrepreneurs members Sector67 and Student Spill took home awards in the 2010 Burrill Business Plan Competition held at UW yesterday. Chris Meyer of Sector67 took home 2nd place and won $7,000 while Heidi Allstop of Student Spill took home $1,000 and free office space in the Metro Innovation Center worth over $15,000. You can …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member company Networked Insights raised $5m in series A funding from Madison angel investment firm Kegonsa Capital. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal article titled Networked Insights Raises $5m: Networked Insights raised the money in a funding round led by Kegonsa Capital Partners, a Fitchburg investment fund. The company will use the money to …
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Parallel Kingdom, the main game of Capital Entrepreneurs member company PerBlue, partnered with Capital Entrepreneurs member company Powered Green to make the entire virtual world of Parallel Kingdom carbon neutral. From their release: PerBlue, the developer of Parallel Kingdom, has decided to celebrate the upcoming Earth Day by purchasing enough carbon offsets to power the …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet launched new features yesterday and come out of public beta. From their release on Marketwire: Entrustet (www.entrustet.com) today announces its services that securely and legally enable users to delete or designate heirs for digital assets (including email, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, PayPal and more), with new features to further help users …
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet was featured in the Financial Times in a story called How To Pass On Your Passwords. From the link: “It is crazy that websites don’t have policies for this,†says Jesse Davis, founder of Entrustet, another US-based internet service for managing digital inheritance. “People are spending real money on these …
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet was featured on Mashable twice in the last two days and was featured on Thrillist today. Mashable’s first article was featured in the Spark of Genius section and was called Plan What Happens to Your Online Accounts Post Morten with Entrustet. From the post: Quick Pitch: Free service helps you …
Capital Entrepreneurs member Power Green was featured on the Easy Eco Blog to talk about Powered Green’s sticker that people can buy to offset their computer’s carbon emissions. From the link: Powered Green is an environmental startup founded by two former students of the University of Wisconsin – Madison. The company was created to provide …
