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Connecture Inc., a growing health insurance software firm, is hiring for 25 jobs in Waukesha and expects to add another 75 this year.

Alice.com, a Middleton company that sells consumer packaged goods online, is getting another financial infusion.

Federal stimulus dollars approved in 2009 will be used to create as many as 659 jobs and provide high-speed Internet access to more than 7,400 rural households in Wisconsin this year.

Finalists in the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest since its inception in 2004 have performed well over time, with 76.7 percent remaining in business today. Those same finalists have raised at least $52 million in private equity and other financing, and they plan to hire more workers in the year ahead.

In a SoLoMo world, Internet display ads are just plain old-fashioned. SoLoMo - which describes the collision of social features, local business promotions (e.g., coupons) and mobile applications - is driving marketing trends and changing the way businesses build and monitor their brands.

The average Wisconsin citizen probably believes state government is paralyzed by partisanship.

Recall elections, perpetual campaign fundraising and party-line votes on major proposals, such as last week's Assembly vote on the mining bill, offer little reason for Joe and Jane Badger to think otherwise.

When thalidomide came to market in the 1950s as a morning sickness treatment, no one imagined the many cases of birth defects that would result from use of the drug.

A countdown of the top ten reasons to enter the Governor's Business Plan Contest.

Zach Brandon of the Wisconsin Technology Council paints a dramatic story of what Wisconsin’s pathetic track record on venture capital has meant to the job base. His numbers on venture investing say that if Wisconsin had kept pace with the national average, it would have almost no unemployment.

The message is clear. If the Badger state is serious about job creation, it needs to pick up the pace on venture capital formation. Minnesota has pulled in $6.5 billion in venture money over the last 40 years; Wisconsin $1.2 billion. Read the full post here.

 

“Crowd funding: Mob rule or empowering the masses?” will be discussed at the Thursday, Feb. 9 meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network’s Milwaukee chapter.