Entrepreneurship & Small Business
Bucketworks makes appeal for contributions
Milwaukee-based Bucketworks, a nonprofit entrepreneurial project space, is looking to raise $18,000 by the end of the day in order to remain in its current location at 706 S Fifth St. in the Walker’s Point neighborhood.
LBWN makes final call for business plan competition submissions
Layton Boulevard West Neighbors (LBWN), a nonprofit dedicated to community development, will accept applications for the Silver City Business Plan Competition through tomorrow.
Lindenberg buys stake in sports memorabilia firm
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 provides financing for Milwaukee housing project
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.
ART Jamboree to feature local artists and commerce
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.”
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South Milwaukee Market gears up for fifth season
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.
KABA adds key executives
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.
Cudahy’s 10 Golden Rules On How To Run An Organization
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.”
“ON Innovation”
“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.