by Tech Council | Oct 10, 2019 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Three years ago, a group of health-tech entrepreneurs, investors and others familiar with the UW-Madison’s painfully sluggish clinical trial process delivered a plea to campus leaders with the power to make changes. The group’s lament:... by Tech Council | Oct 3, 2019 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – An overused word to describe the connections between technology, startups and angel or venture capital investments is “ecosystem,” which implies that startups and the people who help support them are akin to a naturally occurring rain... by Tech Council | Sep 26, 2019 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – For every three H-1B visa applications rejected by the U.S. government since 2004, when the pushback on highly skilled immigrants began, multinational companies based in the United States moved one job offshore. So concluded a new study by... by Tech Council | Sep 19, 2019 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Tom Still EAU CLAIRE, Wis. – The Idea Fund of La Crosse and Great North Labs in St. Cloud, Minn., have a lot in common when it comes to early stage investing in the Upper Midwest. Both funds are roughly the same size in terms of dollars they manage ($13 million and... by Tech Council | Sep 12, 2019 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
“Big Tech” in the United States has gone from wearing a white hat to much sootier headgear, and not without reason. The question at hand is how best to address public concerns over privacy, disinformation, cybersecurity and the everyday reach of mega-companies such as... by Tech Council | Sep 5, 2019 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Tom Erickson is quick to talk about his days growing up in the western Wisconsin community of Mondovi, just south of Eau Claire, as well as his time as a computer and electrical engineering student at UW-Madison. Once he left Madison in...