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Tim Keane
Entrepreneur, Investor, and Advisor to Growth Companies
Interests: Growth Stage Company Strategy
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Joined John Neis, managing director of Venture...
Joined John Neis, managing director of Venture Investors this morning to discuss the current environment and startups. Continue reading
Posted Apr 1, 2020 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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Don Valentine, Sequoia Capital Founder, Dies at 87
Don Valentine is a Silicon Valley legend. Not only was he an innovative investor, he also had the foresight to jump when others hesitated and to understand early on how to coach and encourage young entrepreneurs. The Wall Street Journal... Continue reading
Posted Nov 4, 2019 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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The Story of the Founding of Irish Fest
Here's Ed Ward's inspiring story of the founding and growth of Irish Fest! A worldwide sensation and a gift to music lovers everywhere. On "How Did You Do That" on WUWM with Kathleen Gallagher "How Ed Ward Created The World's... Continue reading
Posted Nov 21, 2018 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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How @kyleweatherly went from healthcare to...
How @kyleweatherly went from healthcare to hospitality on "How Did You Do That?" #WUWM #lakeffect https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/from-health-care-to-hospitality-entrepreneur-kyle-weatherly/id1316151368?i=1000418607087&mt=2 Continue reading
Posted Aug 29, 2018 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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Preparation: Key to Successful Private Transactions, especially in Hot Markets
For leaders of private, closely held companies, selling the company is an important and critical event in their lives. There are several important considerations in managing the sales process to maximize results, avoid both delays and failure to close, all... Continue reading
Posted Aug 21, 2018 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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Hear the inspiring story of Franklin Energy's...
Hear the inspiring story of Franklin Energy's growth to $250 Million from its founder and CEO and how he navigated through three Private Equity transactions on "How Did You Do That?" Podcast here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/entrepreneur-paul-schueller-believes-in-learning-not/id1316151368?i=1000414128145&mt=2 Continue reading
Posted Jun 21, 2018 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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Hear how Tera Johnson's revolutionary idea for a...
Hear how Tera Johnson's revolutionary idea for a whey plant turned into a homerun! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/whey-protein-to-food-finance-institute-tera-johnson/id1316151368?i=1000409032481&mt=2 #wuwm #terajohnson #teraswhey @KathleenGall Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2018 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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Strategy for Angels and Stages of Investing
There is a national trend in angel investing as angel investors continue to retreat from seed and startup stage deals and seek ventures with more established track records. Contrary to the public musings we’ve seen in Milwaukee, it’s not a... Continue reading
Posted Feb 21, 2018 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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Hear: How Jerry Smith's Entrepreneurship Shaped...
Hear: How Jerry Smith's Entrepreneurship Shaped His Career in Commercial Banking https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-jerry-smiths-entrepreneurship-shaped-his-career/id1316151368?i=1000403069608&mt=2 Continue reading
Posted Feb 20, 2018 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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A proposal for helping startups succeed
The most difficult task faced by both entrepreneurs and investors is not only obtaining resources or making investment decisions, but also assessing the chances of success in the proposed venture. This note is an attempt to outline some of these... Continue reading
Posted Jan 30, 2018 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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This month's guest on "How Did You Do That" --...
This month's guest on "How Did You Do That" -- Roger Thrun "How Roger Thrun Moved into The World of Moving People" http://wuwm.com/post/how-roger-thrun-moved-world-moving-people#stream/0 Continue reading
Posted Jan 17, 2018 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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How Fred Foster built a theatre lighting company from scratch
How Fred Foster built a theatre lighting company from scratch: December 2017 broadcast of "How Did You Do That" https://lnkd.in/dbbm3bV Fred started Electronic Theatre Controls with his brother and two friends in 1975. He was a UW-Madison student with an... Continue reading
Posted Dec 19, 2017 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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New podcast with successful entrepreneurs:...
New podcast with successful entrepreneurs: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-did-you-do-that/id1316151368?mt=2 Continue reading
Posted Nov 22, 2017 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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A Great Governor's Business Plan Winner and a Lesson for all of us
Posted Jun 15, 2017 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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Golden Angels Announces IRR Results
It’s not very often that angel networks disclose results. Most of us are ready and willing to discuss our approaches, beliefs or methods, but usually stop well short of providing the proof of our assertions. Today, Golden Angels is publishing... Continue reading
Posted Oct 19, 2016 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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The Next Generation of Angel Investors
Earlier this year, two dozen former students of mine, their friends and colleagues, formed Golden Angels Advisors. Their goal is to help the next generation of investors grow their expertise in both new ventures and early stage investing. Over the... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2016 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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The Martian and Winston Churchill
In the final scene of “The Martian,” Matt Damon’s character, (Mark) says to a class of astronaut candidates: "At some point, everything's gonna go south on you and you're going to say, this is it. This is how I end.... Continue reading
Posted Mar 23, 2016 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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Keys to Successful Angel Group Presentation
GUEST POST By Tim Taylor "The Pitch Coach" from Silicon Valley (http://www.mypitchcoach.com/ The key to a successful angel group presentation is to keep in mind that your objective is to get people in the audience thinking to themselves “This is... Continue reading
Posted Aug 6, 2015 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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De Risk Your New Product Introduction
Posted May 12, 2015 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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All Growth Strategy is Quantitative. You can’t grow what you can’t predict.
I was in Ireland not too long ago in a meeting of a company board of which I'm a member. The company had a very good year - a great one, really - based on a executing a good strategy... Continue reading
Posted Mar 10, 2015 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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Avoiding Investors with Bad Terms
This past Friday morning, there was a news story in which Brian Taffora of CSA Partners in Milwaukee criticized local angel groups for, in his words, "offering terms to startups that "de-risk" the deals for themselves but hurt the company's'... Continue reading
Posted Mar 2, 2015 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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Acquire new customers with high velocity and high efficiency
Last night’s game, like Saturday’s ended with a losing-team player disconsolate in the dirt, but this time without an attached ruling to talk about. Kolten Wong, a ninth- inning Cardinals pinch base runner, was cleanly picked off first base by... Continue reading
Posted Feb 5, 2015 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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Thanks to Wisconsin Technology Council for Triple E Award
Thanks first of all to the people in my life that made it possible for me, thirteen years ago, to devote years to coaching entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship MBA students. That would first of all be my wife of 42 years,... Continue reading
Posted Dec 14, 2014 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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Sorting Out Advice
Being an entrepreneur is one of the hardest jobs there is. OK, so it’s not high altitude forest-fire fighting, (unless you’re starting a fire jumping service!). Every entrepreneur knows, though, that in the quest to make a difference for customers,... Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2014 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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Employee Life Goals: Starbucks and MasterLube
Starbucks announced this week that it is partnering with Arizona State University to make an undergraduate education available at a steep discount to 135,000 US employees who work at least 20 hours a week. Workers will be able to choose... Continue reading
Posted Jun 17, 2014 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success
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