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Save the Date! STARTUP ACCELERATOR is coming to Waukesha!
Calling all entrepreneurs, designers, makers, educators and do-ers! Take your ideas to the next step and attend Startup Accelerator on Saturday, September 25, at the Waukesha Technical Community College Small Business Center. The event, co-sponsored by BizStarts, CATI and Bucketworks, runs from 10am to 4pm and will be held in the Richard T. Anderson Educational Center, 800 Main Street Campus, Pewaukee, WI. Ages 8 to 80 are welcome!
Startup Accelerator brings together entrepreneurs, idea-generators, resource providers, and people with vision to create new connections through collaborative and open education sessions. Startup Accelerator is free! We ask only for your active participation and for a donation to the Waukesha Food Pantry.
UWM's growth touted for new jobs
BizStarts Milwaukee's Dan Steininger was recently quoted in a Milwaukee Journal story on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's growth plan and its role in creating start-ups and spinoffs. .
UWM has seen a major increase in research funding during Santiago's six years as chancellor. Outside research grants to UWM, mainly from the federal government, increased 31% in five years, from $24.8 million in 2004 to $32.6 million in 2009.
That's creating the basis for more start-up businesses, spun off from university research, said Dan Steininger, vice president of BizStarts Milwaukee, a nonprofit mentoring group for entrepreneurs, and co-director of Successful Entrepreneur Investors LLC, a network of business start-up investors. Those new companies, in emerging industries, are badly needed to replace job losses throughout southeastern Wisconsin, he said. "The region has so much riding on this," Steininger said. Read the story here.
Chelsea Krause leads program that fosters startups
Up until recently there really hasn’t been a dedicated resource in Milwaukee for early stage innovative businesses with potentially high growth ideas.
BizStarts Milwaukee was formed two years ago out of a task force established by the Greater Milwaukee Committee designed to study innovation. BizStarts is dedicated to assisting entrepreneurial startups in southeastern Wisconsin. The BizStarts Venture Track Program, a program formed a year and a half ago is making significant strides in fostering the region’s entrepreneurs and startup ventures.
“We are filling a niche,” said Chelsea Krause, executive director of the Venture Track program. “The program works with entrepreneurs with innovative ideas or products with high growth potential on a regional and statewide fasis.”
The program is divided up into three tracks and is free to participating entrepreneurs, Krause said.
Click here for the complete article, "Chelsea Krause leads program that fosters startups".
Click here for the BizTimes complete article titles, "10 people who are CHANGING MILWAUKEE".
Research-to-patients grant in Milwaukee is topic at Sept. 8 WIN-Milwaukee event sponsored by BizStarts Milwaukee
Learn how a $20-million National Institutes of Health grant to the Medical College of Wisconsin and seven other Milwaukee-area institutions will help speed research discoveries to patients at the Wednesday, Sept. 8 meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network’s Milwaukee-area chapter. For more information on the event, click here