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WTN Exclusive Interview with Josh Heling

WTN Exclusive Interview with Josh Heling, co-founder, SecurePipe, Inc. SecurePipe provides security solutions to customers in a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, healthcare, banking, environmental response, consumer products and technology. Heling discusses innovation in viruses, social engineering, raising money, and ecruiting a CEO. WTN: Please start by telling us a li...

Growth: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Understanding the numbers A risk capital financier with a portfolio perspective knows that many of her investments will fail. The winners have to generate high returns to make up for the losers. Some simple calculations suggest that given a 25-35% annualized return requirement, the winners will have to return 10-20 times what was invested (i.e. a $50,000 investment returns $500,000+). Using...

The End is Near or Is It?

Its common to talk about the long road from recession to recovery as a marathon. After the Boom, the market would not rebound quickly. This wasnt going to be couldnt be --- rushed. And with lots of long, hard miles behind us, its beginning to look like the race might actually have a finish line. The deluge of bad news is all but over. Jobless claims are falling. Earnings reports are holding stea...

WAVE of the Future?

MADISON, WI- The UW-Madison Business Schools Weinert Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship program is the WAVE of the future for economic development in Wisconsin. According to Larry Cox, Director of the Weinert School of Entrepreneurship at the UW-Madison School of Business, entrepreneurial culture lags behind in Wisconsin. It is a state that has a lot of great technology. We have wonderf...

On site at BIO 2003

WASHINGTON - A delegation led by Governor Doyle and organized by Forward Wisconsin traveled to Washington, DC this week for the biotechnology industrys leading conference with goals to establish new partnerships, attract investment capital, showcase the states research and university community and to let others know that Wisconsin has a growing biotechnology community. According to members of the...

Molecular Cloning Systems Gets Distributor

MIDDLETON, WI - Lucigen Corporation , a developer and manufacturer of molecular cloning systems and Massachusetts-based Agencourt Bioscience , which develops genomic services and products announced a new alliance in which Agencourt will be the sole distributor of Lucigens CloneSmart cloning kits and research products. Researchers often encounter certain genes, chromosomal regions or entire g...

A Race without a Finish Line!

When times get difficult, its the companies who dont panic, that will continue to grow and serve their customers. About ten years ago, I was working on a project for the Council for Continuous Improvement (CCI), a non-profit organization based in San Jose, California. I was arranging and conducting seminars for executives in the auto industry in Detroit, who were once again going through a make...

WTN exclusive interview with Patrick Kennedy, exec. VP, Sony Pictures Digital

Sony's Patrick Kennedy has focused his professional career on business strategy and corporate development issues in the telecom and entertainment fields. Currently, he oversees the day-to-day strategic operations of the Sony Digital Networks Division , an alignment of the studio's online promotional arm SPiN, SoapCity, Screenblast, the company's mobile content and Wireless Services Group, Go...

GE Medical Systems Receives FDA Clearance for New MRI System

WAUKESHA, WI - GE Medical Systems, a unit of General Electric Company, announced today that it has received clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin marketing its new 3.0 Tesla ultra-short magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The Signa EXCITE 3.0T combines the increased speed and higher resolution of an ultra-high field system with the breadth of imaging capabilities found...

Old Computers find new uses

Madison, Wis. - Have any old PCs sitting in your basement collecting dust? Give Cascade a call. Cascade Asset Management, LLC is an environmentally-friendly Madison-based computer and electronic equipment refurbishing, demanufacturing, and recycling business that provides a means for disposing of unwanted electronic equipment. Its name describes its business - cascading equipment to the equip...
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