Entrepreneurship & Small Business

Layton Boulevard West Neighbors (LBWN), a nonprofit dedicated to community development, will accept applications for the Silver City Business Plan Competition through tomorrow.

Legends of the Field, a Wisconsin-based sports memorabilia and marketing company, announced today that Lindy Enterprises, owned by Jim Lindenberg, has bought a majority interest in the company and will serve as its president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board.

U.S. Bank is providing nearly $10 million in financing to help Heartland Housing Inc. develop a 37-unit family supportive housing project on a once vacant piece of land in northeast Milwaukee.

People don't know what they have. It's better than money.

ART Milwaukee will transform the Shops of Grand Avenue into an art gallery, theater, concert hall and vendor market in one this Saturday with its May ART Jamboree “ART & Buy Local Fair.”

The South Milwaukee Downtown Market will open its fifth season on Thursday, May 23, with produce, organic goods, arts, crafts, baked items and more from dozens of area vendors.

The Kenosha Area Business Alliance (KABA) announced the hiring of a new chief financial officer and a new executive director of Downtown Kenosha Inc. and its newly created Main Street program.

Michael J. Cudahy was known for an open, enlightened and progressive corporate culture at his former company, Marquette Medical. In his autobiography, “Joyworks: The Story of Marquette Electronics,” Cudahy outlined his “10 Golden Rules On How To Run An Organization,” which he also refers to as “How Not To Screw Up An Organization.”

“Creativity is about thinking up new things. Innovation is about doing new things,” is a Theodore Levitt quote found in “ON Innovation,” a new book written by Terry Jones. Jones likes this definition of innovation the most because not many people know how to innovate their ideas and turn them into real products.

The owners of fast-growing companies in the Milwaukee area are encouraged to nominate their firms for the 2013 Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce Future 50 Awards.