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Referrals: Worth Their Weight In Gold or Passing The Buck.

Tim Keane

.  For instance, I've recently written "Bill, I'd like you to consider talking to Ned at Newco who has an intriguing start up that's made some traction in the party planning/social media space as evidenced by some good stats on customer sign-up and early salres results.  I'm attaching a deck. .

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Save the Date! the 5th Lean Innovation Educators Summit

Steve Blank

Babu DasGupta – University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Ivy Schultz – Columbia University. Victoria Larke – University of Toronto. Ali Hawks – BMNT. Julie Collins – Georgia Tech. Bob Dorf – Columbia University. Michael Marasco – Northwestern University. Sabra Horne – BMNT.

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GFi Working With Universities, Manufacturers, and Big Pharma

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Qualitative Research , Innovation Events, Training, Facilitation, and Writing: Facilitation : Marquette University is working with the Milwaukee community and Johnson Controls to innovate. The idea is to combine faculty expertise with social innovation organizations to positively impact problems in urban Milwaukee.

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Diverse Startups Can Receive Tech Mentorship And Thrive

ReadWriteStart

Her company, Citizen Made , which makes tools to help companies sell custom products, won a L’Oréal Women in Digital grant , giving it the funding it needed to open a new office in New York City. About a year ago, Rachel Brooks was poised to bring her startup to the next level.

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People are the whole game - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

In brief, my own story involves a software company called RTMS in Milwaukee.   We had a customer and a value proposition.   It was sold in 2000 and today is the customer service arm of Fidelity Financial in Florida.   It was sold in 2000 and today is the customer service arm of Fidelity Financial in Florida.

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The product design sprint: prototype (day 4)

www.gv.com

They’ll tell you what they expect things to do (“I’d click here because I’d want to see a list of your customers…”), and when they get confused. If you’re running the study in Seattle, and you need to show a newspaper, show the Seattle Times, not the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. That stuff is distracting in a user study.

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Entrepreneur Grows Pet Food Company Through Inspiration of the Benefits of Less-processed Food For Animals

Hearpreneur

Fifteen years later, Stella & Chewy’s remains a growing company, dedicated to delivering their wholesome raw-based nutritional products from a 164,000 square foot manufacturing facility in the suburbs of Milwaukee, WI, where Moody originally grew up. Tell us your story. Where do you see your business in the next 3-5 years?