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After successfully growing and steering the $582 million sale of Madison-based Third Wave Technologies, Kevin Conroy went looking for another company to…
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Mike Harris was a middle-class kid from Racine with no family history of entrepreneurship. He played it safe at UW-Parkside by studying accounting, then…
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Bob Atwell’s critical career decisions can be summed up in one word: contrarian.Unlike most of his classmates at Yale School of Management, Bob came back…
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A chemistry whiz who grew up in Poland, Michael Major left his job as a tenured professor when he was in his early 30s to immigrate to Milwaukee for a job…
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Craig Dickman got his first computer, a Radio Shack TRS-80, in 1977. That purchase, a few coding classes and a lot of self-teaching (combined with two…
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Todd Dunsirn grew up in an entrepreneurial family. His grandfather, father and brothers have all started and owned their own businesses. So, it was no…
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Editor's note: This interview with Ed Ward first aired in Nov. of 2019. Ward died on Oct. 13, 2019 at the age of 74. Ed Ward has experience in the Peace…
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Gary Reynolds started out as a musician, left for the West Coast to try songwriting, then followed his entrepreneurial instincts back to Wisconsin. His…
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From a very young age, Sue Marks has valued entrepreneurship and a strong work ethic.After her grandparents immigrated from Germany in 1919 with nothing,…
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Kyle Weatherly took over his mother’s compression garment business in 2006, grew it by 30 percent a year and sold it 10 years later — all without a…