Entrepreneurship & Small Business

Madison-based Catalyze.io, a cloud-based health care technology company, announced today it has closed a Series A financing round co-led by Baird Capital’s venture capital group, Arthur Ventures and Chicago Ventures, with participation from the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, Gener8tor, Angels on the Water and other individual investors.

The BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation has announced that former Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions Secretary Lorrie Heinemann will join the foundation as vice president.

“They get bids for everything and always take the lowest bid.”
“They send out an RFP and I can never speak to the decision maker.”
“We’re becoming a commodity. All they do is take the lowest bid.”
“It’s the government. They have to take the lowest bid.”

The BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation on Thursday announced that former Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions Secretary Lorrie Heinemann will join the foundation as vice president.

The BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation today announced that former Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions Secretary Lorrie Heinemann will join the foundation as vice president.

Seventy four percent of salespeople complain about losing a sale because their price was too high. And 74 percent of them are wrong.

As businesspeople, we need to know the potential impact of our world's variations in currency values, emerging markets, international politics and shrinking margins.

The sole purpose of a business is to grow. This can take on many dimensions – acquisitions, grabbing more market share, or new product or service, just to name a few. Many people get stuck and never grow because they think, “This is how we have always done it!” Or, when they want to grow and make changes, they do not understand the steps needed for a smart calculated risk.

University of California-Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner and his team conducted a study on awe. They had a group of people complete 20 sentences beginning with “I am...”