This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: The Podcast” features Erin Tenderholt, founder of a Madison-based startup called Blexx. Tenderholt has created a new patent-pending technology in hopes of improving how people dispose of hypodermic needles. “This …
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UW–Madison Physics Professor Receives Moore Inventor Fellowship
Physics professor Victor Brar is the second faculty member from the University of Wisconsin–Madison to be honored with the prestigious Moore Inventor Fellowship. Brar is one of just five Moore fellows recognized in 2018. Moore’s …
UW-Madison startup lets businesses ‘chat’ with their data
Jignesh Patel, a University of Wisconsin-Madison computer scientist, wants to make understanding data like turning on lights in a house. You shouldn’t need an electrical engineer on hand for a bulb to illuminate after flipping …
How Too Much Confidence Can Benefit Entrepreneurs
Researchers have created a computational model to interpret decision-making, learning, and experiences that result in entrepreneurs’ success and failure in market entry and exit. In short, they distilled the traits that lead an entrepreneur to …
Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Showcase Highlights UW–Madison Projects
As interest in entrepreneurship continues to soar, the sixth annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Showcase event provided an opportunity to learn from and be inspired by successful entrepreneurs. Attendees, including undergraduates, graduates, faculty, staff, alumni, and community …
UW Madison Students Compete in Clinton Global Initiative
Passion and progress motivated the two UW-Madison students and a recent alum this fall selected by the Clinton Global Initiative – University (“CGI-U”) program to participate in the organization’s annual conference held at the University …
Exploring Innovation at the Discovery Building
Right across West Johnson Street from Union South lies a building that, to many, around campus, is shrouded in mystery. Although the Discovery Building has plenty of windows and is designed for collaboration, community and …
UW Madison Retains Research Ranking
EatStreet Wins Chancellor’s Entrepreneurial Achievement Award
The founders of EatStreet, a national food ordering and delivery company, were honored Nov. 14 with the UW–Madison 2018 Entrepreneurial Achievement Award. EatStreet is rooted in Madison, where in 2010 three UW–Madison undergraduates grew frustrated …
UW Discoveries Drive Drug Development
The reinvention of a photographic film company has transformed a pioneering stem cell startup into a biotech leader with an eye toward regenerative medicine and drug discovery. The former Cellular Dynamics International Inc., with deep …