Entrepreneurship & Small Business

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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