Why are there so few women in academia working on information technology?
So what could be cooler than being a young techie in Madison? These prototypical urbanistas " bike-riders, app-writers, coffee-shop habitués and craft beer aficionados " are the exemplars of the young...
View ArticleCresa Madison and 100 State coworking spaces launch downtown
The rise of coworking spaces downtown is solid evidence of Madison's growing tech scene.
View ArticleMadison Children's Museum puts on Girls Only SCRATCH programmng class
Women are rarely found in the tech and entrepreneurial worlds. This is a problem with a complicated answer. But if you have a daughter between 9 and 13, you can do your part.
View ArticleThe Art Commission raises nearly $1 million in venture capital
The always-upbeat entrepreneur Toni Sikes was even more buoyant than usual when I caught up with her driving back to Madison from a Minneapolis board meeting. The cause of her good cheer wasn't just...
View ArticleFormer Rep. Kelda Helen Roys launches online startup OpenHomes
Kelda Helen Roys proves there is life after the Legislature. The former two-term state representative from Madison's north side and its suburban neighbors has thrown herself into a web startup rather...
View ArticleCapitalist with a soul
A preeminent business in Dane County's new economy, Promega is a worldwide technology company that sees its mission as not just making money for its investors but living harmoniously in the natural...
View ArticleMark Bugher urges Wisconsin Legislature to avoid criminalizing stem cell...
You'd be surprised at what Mark Bugher, the retiring director of the University Research Park, tells state lawmakers when they ask what they can do to help. Bugher doesn't cite any big spending...
View ArticleUW-Madison campus tech pursuits on upswing
Well, this is a big breakthrough for young Madison techies. A New York venture capital firm is pledging to invest up to $500,000 over the next three years in early-stage UW-Madison startups.
View ArticleSecond thoughts over the StartingBlock tech incubator for Madison
Let's give the skeptics their say. Sure, they acknowledge, the StartingBlock Madison proposal seems like a powerful idea that, in theory, could galvanize the downtown tech scene. It would gather in one...
View ArticleMautz property owners move forward on site plan for StartingBlock Madison
Early reports in July on the StartingBlock Madison proposal were unclear on who would develop the startup complex at the Kleuter Building, located on a sizable chunk of the old Mautz paint factory site...
View ArticleThe FDA looks into Quincy Bioscience's claims for Prevagen
Quincy Bioscience, the fast-growing Madison brain supplement maker, has all but settled its problems with the federal Food and Drug Administration, says Quincy president Mark Underwood.
View ArticleThirty 2013 concerts to remember -- and a few to forget -- from Madison and...
Leonard Cohen was old -- 33 -- when he released his first album in late 1967. A respected Canadian poet and fiction writer, he put aside a proper literary career at a critical cultural moment. This was...
View ArticleEpic opportunity
"Epic will be our equivalent of Microsoft in Seattle, of Dell computers in Austin," predicts Mark Bakken, founder of Epic-focused Nordic Consulting. This is a familiar comparison for Epic watchers in...
View ArticleThe offbeat Bioethics Forum at Promega explores the nature of life
Imagine a serious discussion about LSD. Not "oh wow" accounts from nostalgic baby boomers or "oh hell" accounts from cops and mental health professionals. But something measured yet edgy about how the...
View ArticleFighting web fraud
Timur Yarnall describes it as a "near-death experience." This was mid-2012, when the Madison entrepreneur worried he would lose his company, Broadcast Interactive Media, to web fraud.
View ArticleYou want jobs, Wisconsin? They're in tech, stupid!
Millennials are poised to grow the state's economy, but the old guard is standing in the way.
View Article'What the hell do they do?'
This is a problem. The state's most powerful business voice has conspicuously little contact with Wisconsin's rising technology industry. Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, which claims more than...
View ArticleEpic Systems makes strategic next moves for expansion
What do you do after you've won the gold rush? When you've claimed the richest veins of ore? That's the big question for Epic Systems, the medical software giant that has become Dane County's signature...
View ArticleEpic Systems backs down on noncompete clause
Dane County's fledgling health IT industry has dodged a bullet, but more may be headed its way. The usual Epic paradox was at work: The Verona-based worldwide leader in electronic health records looms...
View ArticleFifteen memorable 2014 concerts in Madison and its Midwestern neighbors
Maybe it was happenstance. Maybe it was the surge line of a big trend. Either way, 2014 was the Year of the Woman for the more than 60 concerts I saw.
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