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2012 Wisconsin Investment Capital Roundup
The fourth quarter venture capital investment numbers came out, which prompted me to update the biotech investment numbers as well as the Wisconsin VC numbers. As I was looking at the data, I was...
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Investing in Long Distance Relationships in Wisconsin
In my previous post about 2012 investment capital in Wisconsin, I asserted and supported the following two statements: Wisconsin has a good environment and the capital to seed and grow companies. The...
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Sanofi R&D: Open Inovation…and Networks
*This post was written for the Biotech in Wisconsin blog and is cross posted here.* This week we had a group from Sanofi R&D come to Wisconsin for a range of activities that culminated with Dr....
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By the Numbers: Madison Biotech Employment
*This post was written for the Biotech in Wisconsin blog and is cross posted here.* Biotech employment numbers for states are often pulled from the Batelle/BIO State Bioscience Industry Development...
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Aldevron: Building Biotech on Trust & Talent
*This post was written for the Biotech in Wisconsin blog and is cross posted here.* If you aren’t familiar with Aldevron’s story, you might wonder why a North Dakota biotech company choose Wisconsin...
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Leveraging Technology to Build Community: Biotech Meetup
A few years ago I was on the board of the biotech association in Wisconsin, now called BioForward. I joined for a variety of reasons but one of my “causes” was trying to reach deeper into organizations...
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Connecting with Biotech in Wisconsin – April Edition
*This piece was cross posted on the Biotech in Wisconsin blog.* For the last couple of months, the Biotech in Wisconsin blog provided a list of local biotech events but this month I wanted to take it a...
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Madison Tech: Opportunity to Recycle?
An interesting question that came up at the Spring Tech Kickoff last week: what tech success stories have there been in Madison? It is immediately clear that good financial returns for tech investors...
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Milwaukee Tech: Opportunity to Recycle?
In another post I wrote about the history of the Madison tech scene, wondering out loud about the opportunities to recycle capital and talent. Wisconsin is of course more than just Madison and I felt...
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Engineering Capital Flow: Thoughts on Wisconsin & Beyond
Late last month there was a formal announcement of a new $30 million information technology venture capital fund in the state of Wisconsin called 4490 Ventures. The fund is the creation of the State of...
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Visonex: Nephrologist Brings EMR Vision to Life
*This piece was cross posted on the Biotech in Wisconsin blog.* In 2002, a nephrologist in Green Bay, Wisconsin founded Visonex with the goal of creating a software package that would capture the true...
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Banding Together to Drive Clinical Utility in Health IT
*This post is also on the Bio in Wisconsin blog.* One of the first things I learned about Srini Kalluri, founder, president, and CEO of Forte Research Systems, was that the ring tone on his phone is...
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High-Tech Startup Density in Wisconsin
Engine and Kaufmann Foundation recently published a report called “Tech Starts: High-Technology Business Formation and Job Creation in the United States”. While most of the report focuses on job...
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How Do You Build Networks When You Can’t Say Anything?
This post is either a bold or a completely misguided attempt to mix the practical steps of networking with the (idealistic?) notion that we as members of an innovation region have a responsible to...
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Biotechnology at the World Dairy Expo
When people talk about biotechnology, agriculture is not necessarily top of mind for many people. Getting caught up in your own corner of biotech is easy to do, even when you learn about the billion...
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WI VC Investment: Down (& Out?) in Q3 ’13
The venture capital investment numbers are out for the Q3 2013 (courtesy of NVCA & PwC). I am usually not particularly interested in the quarterly fluctuations but the Wisconsin numbers caught my...
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Next Community Experiment: WI Biotech Newsletter
I am trying a new community building experiment: aggregating Wisconsin biotech industry news into newsletter format. I’ve been pondering this approach for a while now and the most recent Biotech in...
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Early Stage Biotech Investing in Wisconsin: Hot or Not?
In this post, I want to look at funding, particularly via angel investing, of Wisconsin biotech companies over the last few years. On the national scene, Bruce Booth of Atlas Venture suggested in early...
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The Gift of Achievement – through Activity
Tri 4 Schools is a non-profit organization that uses athletic events as a platform to get kids active and fight childhood obesity. I am helping raise $500 for Madison-based Tri 4 Schools by the end of...
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Social Media & Cancer Drugs: Conversation, not Promotion
*This post was originally posted at Xconomy.* (Updated to include Lilly COI in table based on comment below.) Social media hasn’t yet changed the world for biotech and pharma companies, but I believe...
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