Entrepreneurship & Small Business
“Social Business By Design: Transformative Social Media Strategies for the Connected Company”
Social media is such a widespread networking tool that it is beginning to change the way businesses operate today.
Embrace a recipe for employee retention
I received a phone call last week from a guy I would refer to as a highly talented, committed, hard-working young professional. A top 10-percenter or probably more like 5. This is the “guy” HR professionals all over the greater Milwaukee area are trying to recruit.
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.
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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.
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.
