Nashville Offers More Than Just Country Music: Startup Scene Shines At Southland

It’s easy to overlook a city like Nashville, Tennessee. On the surface, it’s all country music and southern hospitality, and even though country music is gaining mainstream appeal these days, there’s more going on in this great city than first meets the eye. For example, $1.4 billion of venture capital has been raised by 215 [...]... Read More

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Gener8tor Holds First-Ever Demo Day For Wisconsin Startups
BY: Corey Cummings
This week Wisconsin startup accelerator gener8tor held its first-ever demo day, showcasing seven growing business during an event in Milwaukee. Following three months of mentorship and training, each of the seven startups were given five minutes to pitch their idea to a room full of investors and entrepreneurs. Gener8tor was founded by former members of [...]
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PerBlue Focuses On Location-Based Gaming, Releases New Game ‘Parallel Zombies’
BY: Corey Cummings
Madison, WI game studio PerBlue has been developing location-based mobile titles since its founders were still attending the University of Wisconsin in 2008. With its latest release, the company is bringing a zombie title exclusively to Android devices.
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Uncorkd Demystifies The Wine List, Without The Snobbery
BY: Corey Cummings
Chicago-based startup Uncorkd is focusing on demystifying the wine ordering experience for average diners by providing an interactive iPad menu to restaurants.
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Found In Town Helps Your Lost Goods Get Back To You
BY: Corey Cummings
Chicago-based startup Found in Town is working hard to make sure you have a better chance of recovering lost valuables, using the web and ID tags to allow good samaritans to get your lost items back to you.
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Se.cret.ly: This Link Will Self-Destruct
BY: Jon Christian
You might notice that this link doesn’t work. But it worked once – and just once – thanks to se.cret.ly, a new toy for privacy enthusiasts and would-be spies. The site creates short links that, like the cassette tapes in Mission: Impossible, self-destruct after you’ve clicked them. Cool? Well, even cooler if you put on sunglasses and whistle [...]
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Charge Your Gadgets With A Creepy Cyborg Mask? (Spoiler: Probably Not)
BY: Jon Christian
Electrical power which, with contemporary technology, generally means batteries“ is a perennial challenge for mobile technology.
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CEO Sunday: Design To Sell. Build To Keep.
BY: Justin Beck
Written by Justin Beck, Co-Founder and CEO of PerBlue We’re unique in the mobile game industry. Not just because of our product, but because of our principles. We live and breathe by ‘Design to Sell. Build to Keep.’ It’s the philosophy we used to build PerBlue. The basics behind these principles are simple enough to [...]
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Health IT is Broken & A Revolution Is Needed To Fix It
BY: Chris Young
Would you trust your healthcare to electronic medical record systems that were developed using old technologies with a goal to simply replace paper, not improve on that paradigm? Right now, these solutions are state-of-the-art in the enterprise health information technology (Health IT) market. The current market is dominated by a few vendors who may charge [...]
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Pass Referrals with Passing Green
BY: Michelle Doellman
Passing Green has a simple concept – receive services from a business, refer others to that business and collect five percent cash of the referred sale up to a total $5,000.
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Lower Show Prices by Social Sharing with KnockDown Ninja
BY: Russell Roering
Milwaukee-Area startup KnockDown Ninja employees seem to have a flair for the dramatic: they are not simply looking to help you save a few bucks on tickets to popular events; they want to cut them down ninja-style. Owners Zach Gohr and Dan Voell have developed a 2-step process for encouraging people like you to share [...]
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StageBloc: Where Website Development, Music Meet and Rock
BY: Russell Roering
Whether your band still plays garage gigs or is being billed as the next multi-platinum sensation, the talented website developers of Stagebloc are bringing you a design and development tool that is (forgive the pun) music to your ears.
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Revitalized SMC-Milwaukee Promises a Resurgence
BY: Russell Roering
Full disclosure: I am credited by many as the one responsible for the resurrection of the Milwaukee chapter of SMC. I like to think of it more as a collaborative reopening of a new avenue for people of all skill levels in social media to feel like they have a group to bounce ideas off [...]
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ZoomShift Helps Balance Employee’s Schedules with Ease
BY: Russell Roering
ZoomShift is a web-based staff scheduling tool that simplifies the scheduling process for both managers and staff members in a restaurant or business environment.
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Spreenkler Talent Labs Lets Entrepreneurs See Their Ideas Grow
BY: Russell Roering
For developers still in college, the idea of starting their own software or application business may seem out of reach. They have the drive, the ambition, and the idea, but they aren’t sure how to proceed, and the fear of making the right choices and connections at the right times may be too much for [...]
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Lifephoto Brings Your Photos Home in an Eco-Friendly Package
BY: Russell Roering
Lifephoto.com is a web application which allows the user to upload collections of photos and have them professionally printed in a variety of different finishes, onto a variety of different paper stock.
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The Hudson Incubator Might Just Hatch Your Next Big Idea
BY: Russell Roering
The Hudson Business Lounge and espresso bar promises to be the cure for the common collaboration station: The Hudson is the next generation for office nomads and the creative class. The Hudson is a revolution.
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Translator Speaks A New Language Of Business Collaboration
BY: Russell Roering
The year-old group at Translator has put a unique spin on their experience design agency by offering anyone in the business community a chance to stop by for “Translator Lab Hours” on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8-10 a.m. to discuss anything from marketing, to new business ideas, to fashion.
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CEO Sundays: A Newcomer’s Thoughts On The Chicago Startup Scene
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Written by Nick Cronin About five months ago I decided to quit my job and focus full-time on my startup ExpertBids I was living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the time, and although I loved the city, I wanted to move to a location with a more vibrant startup scene. Without my old job to hold [...]
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HarQen’s Application Suite Reenergizes Voice Conversations
BY: Russell Roering
HarQen, on Milwaukee’s east side offers a suite of applications which is utilized by everyone from Human Resources staff to call center managers, and from genealogists to singles.
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Meet-Meme Cards Mean Business
BY: Russell Roering
In this week’s Milwaukee start-up focus, we meet Meet-Meme, originator of the Meet-Meme social media trading card.
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