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Talent Maximizer Series #4: How To Handle The Difficult Employee
This week's workshop focused on How To Handle The Difficult Employee with Karen Bender. As the Founder of your startup it’s inevitable at some point you will have to deal with a difficult employee. These conversations can be hard and awkward but there are ways to...
Talent Maximizer Series #3: Developing Company Culture & Why It’s So Important
This week's workshop focused on Developing Company Culture & Why It’s So Important with culture superstars: Leah Roe of HealthFinch and Zach Blumenfeld, co-founder of ThirdSpace. Gone are the days of joining a company because they have multiple beer taps and a...
Talent Maximizer Series #2: Deciding Whom To Hire & When
This week's workshop focused on Deciding Whom To Hire & When, with Matt Nelson, a local Entrepreneur and Freelance Marketing Consultant and Lucas Frisbie, StartingBlock Madison's Startup Team Strategist. The gig economy is disrupting the way we hire talent and now...
Talent Maximizer Series #1: How To Find And Attract The Talent You Actually Need.
This morning's Talent Maximizer Workshop on How to Find the Talent You Actually Need, featured Karla Angel from Carex Consulting and Chuck Klein from Exact Sciences. There’s going to come a time when you no longer can hire your friends to help you build your startup...
Madison makes good entrepreneurial impression
By Joe Vanden Plas StartingBlock Madison wanted an outsider’s perspective of Madison’s entrepreneurial scene and got a double dose of it Aug. 24 during a special program that drew about 150 local entrepreneurs to theMajestic Theatre. Scott Resnick, executive director...
Record attendance for gener8tor’s Premiere Night
gener8tor, the nationally-ranked Madison/Milwaukee accelerator, proudly showed off its most recent crop of graduates at its May 11th Madison Premiere Night at the Edgewater Hotel. The four graduating companies -- Allergy Amulet, Behold.ai, DATTUS, and Curate --...
StartingBlock selling ‘virtual blocks’ to fund new startup hub
LAUREL WHITE - Donors can buy themselves a piece of the entrepreneurial hub StartingBlock — virtually, at least. StartingBlock, slated to open next year on Madison’s near east side, launched a crowdfunding campaign Wednesday to meet a $1.5 million fundraising goal....
Wisconsin Roundup: NorthStar, StartingBlock Madison, 5Nines & More
Here are some of the past week’s major headlines from Wisconsin’s tech and innovation community: —Madison-based NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes has partnered with Westinghouse Electric to explore producing medical radioisotopes in commercial nuclear reactors,...
New Madison Entrepreneurial Center Moves Past Starting Line
Madison continues to pave its way as a hub for startups and innovation, as plans take shape to create the StartingBlock Entrepreneurial Center, $69 million project, downtown. StartingBlock Madison, a nonprofit including some of the best and brightest entrepreneurs,...
