Molly Dill

With a fresh nonprofit designation in hand, BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Inc. has deployed its first three investments in startup companies that will create jobs in Wisconsin.

Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook as a college student, was an outlier.

Bob Wills wanted to make a difference in his community, so he opened Clock Shadow Creamery, Milwaukee's first cheese factory, in Walker's Point last year.

Flash. Boom. Lights out.

As Tesla Motors Inc. rolls out its revolutionary electric cars and builds its network of superchargers across the country, the company will have plenty of Wisconsin voltage fueling its journey.

Eventually, the members of Generation Y will be the customers, co-workers and supervisors of your company. That fact is demographically inevitable.

Great Lakes Distillery was founded in 2004, but it didn't sell its first product until 2006. The distillery in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood has made a name for itself since then, and founder Guy Rehorst's work to change Wisconsin's antiquated distilling laws has paved the way for 13 other distillers to open in the state.