Entrepreneurship & Small Business

Innovation needs to be a core competency

Are you pleased with the quality of innovative thinking at your company?

Commit to your own happiness

Our TEC membership in Wisconsin lost two valued members and highly respected CEOs recently, one in a tragic motorcycle accident and one after a courageous fight with cancer.

State should venture only as limited partner

Super angel investor Tom Shannon meets with the CEO of Somna Therapeutics, a recent spinout from the Medical College of Wisconsin, every Monday morning to go over an activity report. He and CEO Nick Maris look at what got done the previous week, what needs to happen in the coming week and progress against critical milestones as they prepare to bring to market a device for the control of acid reflux.

Standing still is not an option for manufacturers

Many manufacturers struggle to maintain their competitive positions in regional and global markets that are changing faster than ever.

Small business executives are bullish

Regardless of the impact of the Affordable Care Act, the members of the board of directors of the Council of Small Business Executives (COSBE) are remarkably bullish about their prospects for 2013.

Recommit to excellence

As kids, our well-intentioned dentist forcefully instructed us to "Brush and floss twice each day." Sound advice that we largely ignored. After we blew off that first evening chore and realized the world didn't end, we became more ambivalent on following the regimen with precision.
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Create your own job: Be an entrepreneur

The latest federal government data shows Wisconsin’s job growth is still lagging the U.S. average, with experts suggesting the reasons range from pre-recall election paralysis to reliance on manufacturing to shortages of skilled workers.

Report foretold of Sandy’s destruction

A September research report by Ceres, a Boston, Mass.-based business sustainability advocacy organization, was eerily prescient.

BBB warns of Packer playoff ticket scams

The Wisconsin Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning fans to beware of potential scams selling fake tickets to the Green Bay Packers’ playoff game in San Francisco Saturday.

Innovate or Die: Learning from the Pilgrims and great political thinkers

Listen to words of wisdom from some of our founding fathers and political thinkers:

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