NVCA president and CEO Franklin will open Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium Nov. 9
WISCONSIN TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL
MADISON -- Bobby Franklin, president and chief executive officer of the National Venture Capital Association, will open the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 9, in Madison.
Franklin leads the NCVA’s efforts to promote entrepreneurism and early stage investment, producing research reports, model documents, surveys and other tools to help hundreds of members and associates. He will talk about the state of the venture industry and how those market- and policy-based trends affect Wisconsin and the Midwest....
New pet store Wild Habitats specializes in lizards, fish and reptiles APPLETON POST-CRESCENT
APPLETON - West College Avenue just got a little wilder.
Wild Habitats, a pet store for lizards, fish and reptiles, opened Aug. 16 at 1350B W. College Ave. Co-owners Brady Bartel, Choi Schake and Yvonne Stapleton-Polack aim to help these kinds of pets thrive in more natural environments, or "clean, healthy, lively, vibrant displays," as Schake put it.
Bartel, a reptile and fish enthusiast who has worked in pet shops for over a decade, says Wild Habitats is meant to help customers set up bioactive pet habitats and healthy aquarium tanks, as well as teach others how to keep their pets thriving...
Team Huddle: Wisconsin's pro sports teams partnered to fund diverse startups. What has come of it?
MILWAUKEE BUSINESS JOURNAL
In 2020, as companies nationwide raced to announce diversity and inclusion initiatives in the wake of George Floyd's murder at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, three professional Wisconsin sports teams joined forces on a commitment to invest in minority-owned and social impact startups.
They formed the Equity League, an investment network including the Green Bay Packers, Milwaukee Brewers, Milwaukee Bucks, Microsoft Corp. and Green Bay venture capital firm TitletownTech...
North Fond du Lac students' business finds enormous success
NBC 26
NORTH FOND DU LAC — What started out as a class project by Ayden Fowler and Lillian Goeckerman is now a massive business success, exceeding all expectations. Commah, a line of air fresheners, car diffusers, and essential oils is now sold online and at several local salons and businesses, and will soon have a spot on the shelves of Festival Foods.
The project was for a business class called IncubatorEDU, which prompted students to create a product that would serve as a solution to a common problem...
Winery growth continues 10 years after the creation of Wisconsin Ledge AVA, and bigger things could be on the horizon
GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE
WAYSIDE – The Wisconsin Ledge AVA is 10 years old, which is slightly longer than it took Steve DeBaker of Trout Springs Winery and Eric Fowle of Niagara Escarpment Resource Network to get the U.S. Department of Agriculture designation.
DeBaker recently hosted a 10th anniversary dinner at his winery to celebrate the designation, which took seven years and 4,000 manhours to secure. Attendees included representatives of Captain's Walk Winery in Green Bay, Winealot Vineyards in Greenleaf and Duck Creek Vineyard & Winery in New Denmark, documentary filmmaker Daniel Larson, owner of Com-Video Productions in De Pere, and Fowle, among othersl...
Faces of the Market: Cherri VonDer Vellen of Cherri Blossom Creations
PRESS TIMES
With roughly two decades of crafting experience, Cherri VonDerVellen of Cherri Blossom Creations created several different art forms before finding her niche selling yarn baskets at local farmers’ markets.
“I’ve been a crafter/maker for about 20 years. I started as a way to have additional income for our family,” she said. “I’ve worked with all different types of mediums (jewelry, sewing bags and dresses, even bath salts and glycerin soaps). I started knitting and crocheting about 12 years ago, mostly selling at local craft fairs.”....
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This Sheboygan podcast is amplifying women's voices near and far. What to know about season 2 of 'You Betcha She Did!'
SHEBOYGAN PRESS
SHEBOYGAN - When Rayna Rokicki returned to Sheboygan after teaching for six years in Lagos, Nigeria, she noticed more women-owned businesses downtown.
She said she’s always been pro-women. But becoming the owner of her own business, Ladies First Digital Media Company, where she helps produce podcasts and YouTube channels for women entrepreneurs, gave her another perspective.
“Even though we've come pretty far and it's 2022, there's still a lot more challenges and responsibility that I feel that women face and mothers face,” Rokicki told the Sheboygan Press...
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The Ninth Annual Wisconsin Innovation Awards is Oct. 12
WISCONSIN INNOVATION AWARDS
Join us for the ninth annual Wisconsin Innovation Awards!
The Wisconsin Innovation Awards (WIA) seek to celebrate and inspire innovation. The WIA highlights and honors the development of groundbreaking and innovative ideas. If it is a transformational idea we want to celebrate it. We hope to encourage an even greater environment of innovation by bringing innovators together from various business sectors (e.g. tech, food, healthcare, agriculture, nonprofits, education, government), and from throughout the state.
2022 Wisconsin Innovation Awards will be held on October 12, 2022 to the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union in Madison, WI from 5:30 – 8:30 PM....
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