The Milkweed Effect: Disseminating Technology to New Regions

...ravels when necessary to engage with clients, and in a now-more-relaxed life works with local schools to leverage technology in the classroom, teaches entrepreneurialism at the community college, invests in a few local technology businesses, and in due time this sleepy town benefits from the infusion of intellectual an...

Ciscos John Morgridge Speaks on How Wisconsin can Develop Successful Technology Clusters

...as a culture of entrepreneurialism, he said. "It is really a whole fabric ... it is not just money," Morgridge said. "It is not just state support. entrepreneurialism taught not just in the business schools, but, in the law schools and the engineering schools. All of those schools have entrepreneurial spirit -- the ...

An In-Depth Look at Wisconsin's Mediocre Economic Report Card

... release of this story. Hozeny and others emphasized that the report card should improve next year given efforts of the Doyle administration to foster entrepreneurialism and provide seed capital to technology-related businesses. Wednesday, the Doyle administration announced changes to an existing tax credit program ...

Wisconsin seeks to develop $10 million angel investment fund

... with other state agencies, including the Department of Commerce , to produce an annual study of Wisconsin businesses that will capture the trends in entrepreneurialism and obstacles faced by new businesses. The goal is to recommend changes in government policy in order to accelerate economic development. Heinemann...

What makes Silicon Valley so different?

...mes in computing: Data General, Wang, Computervision , Digital, to name just a few. Within these bounds, a large and diverse population balances tech entrepreneurialism with a range of economic endeavors. Indeed, economic diversity - or lack thereof - is another distinguishing factor of Silicon Valley, where an ent...

To drive IT, Wisconsin may need entrepreneurial makeover

...d welfare reform, but a transformation from Wisconsin's status as a conservative, risk-averse state to something closer to the devil-may-care brand of entrepreneurialism of California's Silicon Valley. That will take time, if it occurs at all, but other regions have made the change, noted John Morgridge, chairman of...

Motorcycling entrepreneur to speak in Madison on success, failure, capital

...ce compelled him to write Riding the American Dream: Surviving Road Rash & Living to Tell About It. As Hanlon explains, road rash in the context of entrepreneurialism is both a literal and figurative term. Anyone who has been active in motor sports and business has fallen off a moving vehicle, but the more determine...