Chip Heath, Dan Heath: Made to Stick, Why Some Ideas survive and others die. The term 'serial killer' was coined in the mid-1970s by Robert Ressler, the former director of the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program. He chose 'serial' because the police in England called these types of murders 'crimes in a series' and because of the serial films that he grew up watching.
18, 2014I often get the opportunity to meet severalemerging Milwaukee startups, here are 10 towatch (in no particular order) as they continue to grow.– recently accepted into Microsoft Ventures / AmFam Ventures Home Automation accelerator in Redmond, Washington. Scanalytics has developed the SoleSensor, an intelligent floor mat that digitally measures real-world foot traffic for retailers, tradeshow exhibitors and other industries. – This subscription-based eCommerce company offerswomen’s makeup, accessories and intimates. Led by serial entrepreneur JalemGetz, Wantable recently raised a $1.5M Series A to expand its product offeringsand hire more staff to keep pace with growth.
– This startup launched as a bar app and made asuccessful pivot to become a social photography company. Founder Steve Andersonhas done a great job creating a product brands such as Gruber Law Offices, Tap Milwaukee and NEWaukee will pay for. –Rent College Pads helps universities like Marquette, Northern IllinoisUniversity, UW-Oshkosh and more manage their on- and off-campus housingoptions. Their unique model has led to explosive growth. Bootstrapped and lean,they expect to double their staff in the coming months and expand to severalmore universities across the country. With his sales smarts and hard workethic, founder Dominic Anzalone is quickly proving himself to be one of themost talented up-and-coming entrepreneurs in Milwaukee. MajorWeb – Founded by UWM students Kyle Forsberg and BillBarlas, MajorWeb is building an interactive degree planner for college students.
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– Founded by HR industry veterans Anne Nimke and Betsy Rowbottom, The Good Jobs offers a turnkey solution for attracting and retaining the right talent and helps companies improve employment branding, culture marketing and candidate engagement. – SpotHopper is similar to a Pandora fornightclubs, bars and restaurants — share your personal preferences, and the appwill recommend the perfect place for you. As someone who has used the appbefore, I can attest their algorithm is extremely accurate. Launched in Milwaukee in spring by serialentrepreneur Aleks Ivanovic, they have grown quickly and launched in New York,Madison and Denver this summer.- Okanjobuilds community around eCommerce. Its powerful, flexible tools are used everyday by publishers, media companies, retailers, small and medium businesses,charities and more. – Led by Merge Healthcare founder BillMortimore, Project Foundry has developed software that helps educatorsimplementing project-based learning courses as demand from educators continuesto grow. A unique angle on the saturated apartmentrental space, Find My Spot helps corporations relocating employees who preferto rent find the perfect place.Undoubtedly I missed some startups, please comment with your suggested additions.
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I'll be creating new versions of this list frequently. Disclosure: I am an adviser to Rent College Pads.
About Matt CordioMatt Cordio is founder of Skills Pipeline, Startup Milwaukee and The Commons. Skills Pipeline is an IT talent acquisition and recruitment company. Startup Milwaukee provides entrepreneurs in Southeast Wisconsin access to critical resources as they launch and scale their ventures. The Commons is an accelerated skills development program training the next generation of entrepreneurs and corporate innovators in Southeast Wisconsin.
In his free time you can find Cordio on a lake in Northern Wisconsin or reading about the next big trends in management and technology. A Madison fashion technology company, has raised $1.9 million of a proposed $2.8 million equity funding round, according to a with federal securities regulators.Markable has an app that helps users instantly buy fashion items they see online or on the street. The app analyzes a photo and finds instantly a shopping site and best matches for the item.The company was co-founded in 2014. Tang, chief executive officer, has an undergraduate degree in math and economice from MIT and was a 2002 China Math Olympic Gold Medalist. Wang, a vice president, has a graduate degree in finance from Illinois Institute of Technology. Both executives work in Chicago and Madison.
A, has raised $1.5 million to fund future growth, the company said Thursday.Privately-held Gearbox Express was founded in 2011 and have them ready for utilities to install when their wind turbine gearboxes wear out or fail. The money raised was all equity, according to a with federal securities regulators.' Our growth is exceeding our expectations and the additional capital will fund more inventory and new products so we can better serve our customers,' said Bruce Neumiller, chief executive officer. A Madison biotechnology company that is developing flu vaccines, said Wednesday it has begun a clinical trial of its RedeeFlu universal influenza vaccine.The trial involves 96 healthy adult subjects between the ages of 18 and 49. It will evaluate the safety of the vaccine and the antibody and T-cell responses it prompts. The vaccine has in animals induced robust antibody and cellular immune responses without producing any infectious virus particles, the company says.'
We believe that Redeeflu could be the first influenza vaccine to show robust protection from drifted or mismatched flu strains,' said Paul Radspinner, the company's president and chief executive officer. The Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce announced Friday the launch of the HealthTech Capitol website as part of an initiative dedicated to establishing Madison as a leader for health innovation by allowing companies to leverage talent, capital and mentoring.' With a robust ecosystem of world-class research, the market leader in electronic medical records, entrepreneurs and a strong network of payers and providers, Greater Madison is already a leader in health innovation,' said Chamber President Zach Brandon. 'HealthTech Capitol will help build on these strengths by supporting companies and talent in our region and building an infrastructure that will amplify our health discoveries to the world.'
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HealthTech Capitol represents efforts begun in 2012 by entrepreneurs to make greater Madison the best place to start and grow a health technology company. The effort brought together a group of emerging health tech companies and providers from the Madison area, including HealthX Ventures, Moxe, Healthfinch, Forward Health Group and Wellbe.HealthTech Capitol is sponsored by the Godfrey and Kahn law firm, with support from UW Health and CUNA Mutual Group. At least 128 state companies raised more than $209 million of angel and venture capital in 2015, with the results indicating what the president of the Wisconsin Technology Council described as a generally improving picture for early-stage financing.' I think most of the trends here are quite good,' said Tom Still of the council, which puts together the annual accounting.Angel and venture financing marks an important measure of how well a state is doing at growing high-potential companies, and Wisconsin's record has been mediocre at best. To drum up interest in manufacturing and engage young people, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce is holding a contest to determine the 'coolest thing' made in the state.The contest will accept nominations through Aug.
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31, organizers said.' We want manufacturers and Wisconsin residents to start nominating products on our website, and we want people, especially young people, to start a conversation about manufacturing and participate in voting in September,' said Kurt R. Bauer, president and CEO of WMC, a major business lobbying organization that says it represents 3,800 employers in the state. Jerry Jendusa, co-founder of aerospace products maker Emteq LLC, has donated $1 million to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to fund an entrepreneur-in-residence program, the school said Wednesday.The Lubar Center for Entrepreneurship, which was establishged in 2015 with a $10 million gift from Marianne and Sheldon Lubar, is on UWM's campus.' I am proud to support entrepreneurs in residence, who will bring real-world experience to the classroom and introduce students to innovators who are shaping Milwaukee and our region,' Jendusa said.
'Big entrepreneurial ideas start as a dream, and I want to encourage students to chase their dreams.' A venture capital fund with an unusual, consulting-driven business model, has raised $8.2 million, according to a with federal securities regulators.The fund raised the money from 29 investors, the filing said. This brings to $9.2 million the total amount the fund has raised, according to.WISC Partners in April said it had, with of Mequon, led a $1.2 million funding of, a Fitchburg company that is building an online marketplace for buyers and sellers in markets such as hazardous waste, medical waste and environmental remediation. IDAvatars, a Mequon start-up that develops health care apps featuring an avatar, or animated character, has merged with CodeBaby, a company based in Colorado Springs, Colo., that develops so-called virtual assistants.The two companies, which combined will employ about 35 people and 10 contractors, have complementary technologies, said Norrie Daroga, the founder and chief executive officer of iDAvatars.CodeBaby, which also has an office in Edmonton, Canada, has focused on developing products for websites, while iDAvatars has focused on. At the end of the day, it was the sheer volume of ideas for combating one of the most insidious killers of human beings that impressed Kevin Conroy, top executive at Madison-based.Conroy was among more than 350 business people, researchers, oncologists, patient advocates and others at the at Howard University in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. The goal: to come up with ideas to help double the rate of progress against the intractable disease.Vice President Joe Biden talked personally and energetically about beating cancer and mentioned his son Beau, who died a little more than a year ago of brain cancer, said Conroy, who sat next to National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins during Biden's speech.
The candidate of the European People’s Party (Map of Grand Canyon), the Bavarian Manfred Weber, has called in Hamburg to fight the ultra-right «united» and to distance themselves from populist slogans.