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For many business owners and managers, the question of whether to require worker vaccinations against COVID-19 once seemed an easy choice: With so many people lined up for vaccine shots when they were first released, it appeared simple encouragement and maybe a few...
WEDC: Rural Eau Claire County residents testing SpaceX internet service with help from WEDC
WEDC is assisting Eau Claire County in launching a pilot program to test SpaceX’s Starlink, a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites that can provide high-speed internet in rural areas where broadband is limited or not available. The pilot project, which provides...
WisBusiness: La Crosse investor sees opportunities for entrepreneurs to leverage expertise
Meet Jonathon Horne Monday, August 9 at the Idea Fund of La Crosse offices for the last stop of the Wisconsin Portfolio Statewide Tour. Register here. A La Crosse-based investor sees opportunities for Wisconsin entrepreneurs to leverage industry expertise as they...
Crunchbase: Red-Hot Venture Funding Landscape Is Shaking Up Early-Stage Investing
Startup funding around the world is on a tear this year and, increasingly, it’s not just traditional venture investors driving that growth. Globally, venture investment is up 95 percent year over year to at least $288 billion through the first half of 2021. North...
Door County Daily News: Tech Council to talk investments in Egg Harbor
The Wisconsin Technology Council is making its way around the state, and Door County will be one of its first stops. The Tech Council is putting on a “Wisconsin Portfolio” Tour. They’ve been putting out a “Wisconsin Portfolio” yearly since 2008, but this is the first...
Crunchbase: Star-Gazing Investors Launch More Money Into Space Tech
Although Jeff Bezos‘ and Richard Branson‘s brief space jaunts have generated massive media interest in space travel for the last week, investors have been over the moon about space tech for at least two years now. Venture funding in space travel, satellite...
Tommy Thompson: UW System is a solution to workforce needs
By UW System president Tommy Thompson Employers across Wisconsin have one thing on their mind as we emerge from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic: Employees. They can’t get enough. Yet, from Superior to Kenosha, Platteville to Green Bay, Barron County to Rock County,...
InsideWis: Exploring space is much more than joy rides for billionaires
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson has scraped the edge of space; former Amazon executive Jeff Bezos has returned from a 66.5-mile-high journey in a spacecraft built by his Blue Origin company; and Elon Musk’s Space X has a deal with the...
WisBiz: The Show’ features Bre Loughlin of Nurse Disrupted
Welcome to “WisBusiness: The Show,” a twice-a-month Web show covering state business news and issues. MADISON – The latest episode of “WisBusiness.com: The Show” spotlights Bre Loughlin, who won the Information Technology category of the 2021 Wisconsin Governor’s...
WisBusiness: WMC survey says more than half reduced staff due to COVID-19
-- More than half of employers responding to a recent Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce survey say they reduced staff last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. WMC, the state's largest business group, surveyed 266 member employers and found that 34 percent of...
Beloit, Madison, Milwaukee and La Crosse next stops in venture capital report tour
Learn more about the state of angel and venture capital investments in Wisconsin and meet the director of the Tech Council Investor Networks August 2, 3, 4 and 9. Please see the detailed full schedule hyperlinked below. Those locations make up the second week of the...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Supporters of fund of funds proposal hoping for standalone bill later this year
Supporters of a $100 million venture capital fund are considering a separate bill to create the mechanism to boost young businesses. This comes after the "fund of funds" was not included in the state's 2021-23 biennial budget. “It has been raised as a possibility by...