Celebrating the Region’s Fast-Growing Companies
Many Future 50 companies are built for the long haul The year was 2000. The dawn of...
Can your business model survive deflation?
Is deflation a risk? Yes. That's the simple answer. However, understanding deflation's drivers is important for deciding whether to change your business model strategy to address that risk.
M&A market remains strong
Throughout 2010, the mergers and acquisition marketplace, particularly the middle market, has seen a significant rebound from the lows realized in 2009, during the height of the Great Recession.
Innovate or die
Innovation and entrepreneurship drive the U.S. economy. Businesses rise and fall on their ability to adapt to market forces through innovation. Innovation drives top line revenue growth.
Tangible results
BizStarts Milwaukee Inc. has launched and helped finance several companies in the two years it has been operating. They...
‘New companies create new jobs’
If the Milwaukee area is going to increase the number of jobs here, grow its tax base and...
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City awaits office development subsidy requests
Developers who are trying to build a new office building in downtown Milwaukee will probably need to obtain more than just a couple of anchor tenants. They also will need to obtain a subsidy from the city of Milwaukee in order to put together a financing package for a new downtown office building, commercial real estate industry observers say.
Milwaukee company develops air sanitation system
Prolitec Inc., Milwaukee Innovation: aria air sanitation device www.prolitec.com/aria Air care is a...
New Chinese graduates have higher expectations
I recently hired a Beijing University graduate as a translator. Beijing (Beida) and Qinghua are the Harvard and MIT of China, and when you do the math in terms of the number of students vying to be in these top institutions, you are dealing with the upper .001 percent of the students of their year.
Small IT company competes with global firms for state contract
The Wisconsin State Department of Administration recently put out an invite-only email and cloud computing request for information (RFI) for an upcoming project. Watertown-based KD Interactive was the only Wisconsin company invited to participate in the RFI, and the firm is competing against tech giants such as IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Cisco.