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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Milwaukee, WI - < New clients added during this month, bring the total number of clients at IT Fusion Business Center – MKE to 12, the company released today. This level is a doubling of the number of clients since the end of the first quarter of the year. New clients have taken service packages at all...

Contact: Tom Still (608-695-7557) or Liz Katz (608-239-3960) MILWAUKEE – Two early-stage companies with ideas that could improve human health by producing quicker, more accurate and less invasive tests will share the Grand Prize in the first Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. BioSystem Development, a Middleton firm, and NovaScan, a company rooted in Milwaukee, tied in final round...

Contact: SBA – Dennis Byrne (202) 205-6567 USDA - Tim McNeilly (202) 690-0498 WASHINGTON – Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman and Small Business Administration Administrator Hector V. Barreto today announced an Administration effort to stimulate rural business development and jobs by providing greater access to venture capital investment funds. The SBA, on behalf of USDA, will enable venture capital...

MEDIA CONTACTS: Jennifer Dryburgh Neighbors / Tim Wirtz Hoffman York 414-225-9535 / 414-225-9522 jdryburgh@hyc.com / twirtz@hyc.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MADISON, Wis. (June 3, 2004) – The Center for Technology Transfer Inc. (CTT) announced the completion of agreements that will provide up to $250,000 in funding for Madison, Wis.-based Virent Energy Systems. In addition, the Wisconsin Department of Commerce will provide...

The Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Conference is a "how-to" conference focused on giving entrepreneurs the tool they need to start and grow businesses that will fit with Wisconsin’s high-growth, knowledge-based economy. The conference is organized in tracks – centering around marketing, sales and other concerns of the entrepreneur, services such as accounting, legal advice development consulting often used by startup and...

Chippewa Valley Technical College, RCU Community Room, 620 W. Clairemont Ave. Eau Claire. Contact: 715.834.1204 How important is it to you to convey the conviction of your ideas in today's competitive business world? How do you communicate the power of your message so everyone around you gets it? The ability to communicate with conviction shows confidence and...

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By Gregg Hoffmann MILWAUKEE – Jim Rygiel's entrepreneurial journey started in Kenosha a couple decades ago, and ended up in New Zealand, where he lived for more than three years doing the visual effects on the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Rygiel returned to his home state Wednesday to speak at a luncheon of the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Conference. The three-time winner of...