Kathleen Gallagher
Midwest Moxie HostKathleen Gallagher is the host of Midwest Moxie and previously the host of How Did You Do That?.
She's a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who is Executive Director of 5 Lakes Institute, a non-profit focused on building and connecting the Great Lakes Region’s high-tech entrepreneurial economy and culture. She is also a columnist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Previously, during more than two decades as a reporter at the Journal Sentinel, Kathleen covered banking, technology and entrepreneurship and wrote a weekly Investment Trends column. In 2011, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for co-authoring a series of articles about how doctors and scientists in Milwaukee for the first time in history sequenced all the genes of a patient for diagnosis. Kathleen and co-author Mark Johnson wrote a book based on that series called One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine.
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Nicole Atchison and Francis Wang are both building a more sustainable future.
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Tyrre Burks' desire to create the safest environment possible for a young athlete to play the sport they love resulted in forming an insurance company.
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Nancy Benovich Gilby and Katie Thompson have both figured out how to bring unique products to market in business.
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Greg Piefer's company, Shine Technologies, has about 400 employees and $700 million of funding directed at harnessing the reaction that powers the sun.
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Shane Farritor and Josh Riedy have small town roots and big tech attitudes.
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Matt Rubin and Gordon Daily are using their technical skills to build growing businesses.
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Jake Joraanstad knew about row crops and grain elevators. Julia Regan understood getting patients on specialty medications. Both saw an opportunity to digitize a paper process and seized it.
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Mike Evans turned a desire to order take-out food more easily into Chicago-based GrubHub, which raised $200 million in a 2014 IPO. Now, Evans' insights are informing his latest startup, Fixer.
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The first season of Midwest Moxie produced a treasure trove of tips from experienced founders about how to be an entrepreneur. The problem is we didn’t get to air all of them, so this special episode brings you tips from some of the founders ranging from startup finances to company culture and vision.
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Jon Pearce got an internship with a startup while still in college, setting his path toward becoming a founder. Valarie King-Bailey spent more than 20 years working for other companies before starting one of her own. Despite different timelines, both found their calling.