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Menu for success: EatStreet finds fast growth in fast delivery

July 1, 2014

It’s startup city at the offices of EatStreet in downtown Madison: bikes in the corridors; backpacks in the corners; construction workers running cable for the large new office that will be filled within weeks by engineers and product managers. Business is booming, says Matt Howard, EatStreet’s president. The company — a coast-to-coast, online restaurant take-out ordering service — has more than doubled its list of customers since January, and it’s just received a $6-million investment. Read More

WARF appoints Tong to board presidency

May 19, 2014

Business leader Peter Tong has been appointed the new president of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) board of trustees. Tong, who was appointed May 9, succeeds John W. Rowe, who will remain a member of the board. Read More

Mackie to receive highest honor in medical physics

May 12, 2014

Thomas "Rock" Mackie, director of medical engineering at the Morgridge Institute for Research, will receive the highest honor in the field of medical physics for his far-reaching contributions to medical imaging. Read More

Ride sharing app ‘Coride’ aimed at intercity travelers

May 7, 2014

A young business a University of Wisconsin–Madison grad student started, which links drivers with empty seats to people needing a ride between cities, is ready to launch a mobile app. Read More

UV light-emitting bandage wins Qualcomm Innovation Prize

April 24, 2014

A smart, ultraviolet therapeutic bandage won the top prize and $15,000 at the 2014 Qualcomm Innovation competition at UW–Madison. The Power Wearables team of biomedical engineer Mehdi Shokoueinejad, electrical and computer engineers Akshay Kumar and Yei-Hwan Jung created the MicroViolet Patch to combine phototherapy with a typical adhesive bandage. Read More

Llama fur and entrepreneurship build a business

April 16, 2014

Two University of Wisconsin–Madison students are bringing together collaborators on three continents to pursue their dream of building a sustainable sleeping bag. Read More

University Research Park event seeks to jump-start startups

March 13, 2014

Madison's third annual Startup Weekend event, whose goal is to assemble entrepreneurial minds from Southern Wisconsin and beyond to collaborate on innovative projects and potentially form startup companies, will be held April 4 to 6 at the University Research Park in Madison. Read More

Veteran entrepreneur named to direct Discovery to Product initiative at UW–Madison

March 11, 2014

John Biondi, a Wisconsin entrepreneur with extensive experience in early-stage high-technology companies in the state, has been named the first director of Discovery to Product (D2P), a new UW–Madison project to accelerate the formation of businesses based on discoveries at the Madison campus. Read More

UW-Madison student innovators win Desire 2 Learn grand prize

March 5, 2014

An idea that began as a homework assignment for two UW–Madison sophomores living in Sellery Hall's Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community, has since grown into a fully functional, award-winning website that serves hundreds of UW–Madison students. Read More

The next dimension: 3D color printer wins innovation competition

February 17, 2014

Spectrom, an attachment for 3D printers that will allow users to incorporate seamless, on-demand color into the 3D printing process, won both the $10,000 Schoofs Prize for Creativity and the $2,500 Tong Prototype Prize at the 20th annual Innovation Days competition. Read More

Law School clinic founders win Best of Madison Business Award

February 12, 2014

Anne Smith and Eric Englund, co-founders of the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic at University of Wisconsin Law School, recently received a 2014 Best of Madison Business Award from Madison Magazine. Read More

Innovation Days marks 20 years of undergrad entrepreneurship Feb. 13-14

February 10, 2014

University of Wisconsin–Madison undergraduates are greeting the 20th anniversary of the Innovation Days competition with inventions that range from healthcare to agriculture to exercise for amputees. Read More

Startup fair showcases young, hungry companies

February 6, 2014

Students eager to plunge into the startup culture got a chance to meet early-stage firms trolling for talent at the 2014 Madison Startup Fair, held Wednesday afternoon at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. Read More

UW-Madison alum masterminds strategy of Internet ad placement

January 29, 2014

Increasingly, advertising is the currency of the Internet. Those rectangles that compete to catch your eye fund many of those free services that dominate the Web. Read More

‘Office hours’ on State Street offers informal advice to entrepreneurs

January 27, 2014

A campus leader in entrepreneurship has embarked on biweekly, drop-in sessions at 100state, a "co-working" facility on State Street near the Capitol where entrepreneurs gather to move their ideas toward the market. Read More