Entrepreneurship & Small Business

The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. and the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Technology Commercialization have awarded grants from the Ideadvance Seed Fund to 11 startups, including seven from the Milwaukee area.

BizTimes Media and ActionCoach of Elm Grove have created a new workshop series to guide business owners and C-level executives through steps that are critical to growing their businesses.

BizTimes Media and ActionCoach of Elm Grove have created a new workshop series to guide business owners and C-level executives through steps that are critical to growing their businesses.

Everyone tells you to meet with the decision maker.

The latest edition of the BizTimes Milwaukee Magazine features a cover story, “Get Unstuck” on the entrepreneurial journey of Jerry Jendusa, who founded New Berlin-based Emteq, and recently sold the company. Now Jendusa is starting another firm, Stuck LLC, to help other entrepreneurs.

BizTimes Media has jumpstarted its second annual Future 50 Most Social Company contest, which will award one area nonprofit organization a cash prize and advertising package worth more than $10,000.

If you've never been to the Guggenheim Museum in New York City you're missing an exceptional experience and an incredible lesson in sales.

Have you ever thought about the way you think? How do thoughts just pop into your head? How do you create an idea?

As regional administrator for the Great Lakes Region for the U.S. Small Business Administration, I am proud to announce our federal government met its small business federal contracting goal for the first time in eight years, thanks to the SBA and President Obama's commitment to increasing small business contracting opportunities. In Fiscal Year 2013, our government awarded 23.39 percent in federal contracts to small businesses which is $83.1 billion of eligible contracting dollars according to SBA's Small Business Procurement Scorecard.