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What does it take for an entrepreneur to go from an idea to a successful startup? Host Kathleen Gallagher talks with Wisconsin entrepreneurs about how — and why — they've succeeded.How Did You Do That? is no longer being updated, check out Midwest Moxie.
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Introducing 'Midwest Moxie' from 2022-03-14T10:12:42
Introducing Midwest Moxie, a new podcast about the successes, failures, insights and opportunities that shape some of the Midwest’s most exciting entrepreneurs.Listen
How Chris Salm Went From Sausage Making To Commercializing University Research from 2021-03-30T14:07:08
On the latest installment of our series on entrepreneurship, How Did You Do That?, host Kathleen Gallagher speaks with Chris Salm about how he went from working at several large food companies to c...
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How Rock Mackie Improved Radiation Therapy And Grew Successful Companies from 2021-01-06T10:09:19
Rock Mackie is a medical physicist who invented a safer type of therapeutic radiation, called tomotherapy, that delivers less radiation with just as much effectiveness. It has saved many lives.
How Glen Tullman Uses Digital Solutions To Address Health Care Challenges from 2020-11-23T12:52:06
Glen Tullman has an undergraduate degree in economics and psychology, spent a year in Oxford, England studying social anthropology, lived for a year with the Amish, and is a highly successful softw...
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How Lori Cross Drove Innovation Inside Corporations By Thinking Big&Acting Small from 2020-10-26T14:28:53
Lori Cross dropped out of her all-girls’ high school in Michigan because there wasn’t enough physics and math to keep her challenged. Technical college was a little better, but Cross found her plac...
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How John Splude Built A Software Company Out Of A Public Accounting Career from 2020-09-24T10:17:18
John Splude began his career in public accounting, auditing some of the biggest companies in the area. But he stayed involved with his firm’s smaller clients along with the Fortune 50 companies. An...
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How Robert Jordan Went From Truck Driver To Entrepreneur from 2020-08-28T13:15:51
Robert Jordan spent 20 years as a trucker, driving loads of cheese and other dairy products across the country. Over the miles he educated himself by listening to books on tape and spent hours thin...
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How Ralph Kauten Leans Into Life Sciences Market Trends from 2020-07-28T16:56:07
Ralph Kauten is a true serial entrepreneur. He co-founded two life sciences companies that sold for a combined $200-plus million and was involved very early in three more. The biggest of those, Pro...
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How Loren Peterson Drove The Success Of A Drug Development Startup from 2020-03-25T14:43:50
Loren Peterson’s path to a successful startup company began on a Nebraska farm. It was a half-mile from the nearest neighbor, 1 mile from where his Swedish ancestors homesteaded, and several miles ...
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How James Phelps Grew His Own Construction Company from 2020-03-02T11:38:07
James Phelps thought about starting his own business for a long time. He turned the idea over and over in his mind while: learning about the trades at Milwaukee Tech, working in the Milwaukee Publi...
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How Lori Hoch Abandoned A Successful Law Career To Run A Startup from 2020-01-16T17:55:16
Lori Hoch graduated first in her class from University of Southern California law school, worked at two of Milwaukee’s biggest law firms, then became in-house counsel for the trust department of Wi...
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How Jerry Jendusa Changed The Way Airplane Cabins Are Lit from 2019-12-19T13:15:03
Jerry Jendusa grew up working in the Waukesha pharmacy his dad operated for 33 years. It was there where he learned about being a business owner and having employees, customers, and a work ethic. S...
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How Laura King Grew A Risky Startup While Following Her Passion For Clinical Care from 2019-11-18T10:00
After graduating from the University of California, Davis with an economics degree, Laura King got a job in finance at General Electric (GE). She rose quickly through the ranks, and after a series ...
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How Justin Beck Built A Mobile Game Studio That Partners With Disney from 2019-10-28T16:50:04
When Google and Microsoft came calling with the type of jobs many young computer engineering graduates look for, Justin Beck turned them down. The 2009 graduate of UW-Madison wanted to stay in town...
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University Research&Startups Are 'Completely Synergistic,' says Entrepreneur Jignesh Patel from 2019-09-25T13:24:47
A native of Bombay, India, Jignesh Patel never touched a computer until he went to college. But he knew that computer science was an exciting area where a lot was happening, so he chose it as his m...
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How Craig Culver Built A Thriving Restaurant Chain from 2019-08-27T12:05:35
After years of working day and night in his family’s businesses, Craig Culver decided he wanted to get out of the restaurant industry. But a four-year stint at McDonald’s corporate headquarters — f...
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How A Wisconsin Spine Surgeon Became A Successful Entrepreneur from 2019-07-23T12:53:04
Pete Ullrich was a young spine surgeon in Neenah, Wis., who wasn’t satisfied with the available tools. So he came up with a new one: a titanium spacer to put between vertebrae during spinal fusion ...
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How Andy Nunemaker Went From Corporate Executive To Serial Entrepreneur from 2019-06-27T16:29:12
Milwaukee native Andy Nunemaker studied electrical engineering and business at some of our country’s top universities and held high-level jobs at two of its biggest companies. He got an undergradua...
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How Kevin Conroy Transformed Exact Sciences With Three Guiding Principles from 2019-05-28T11:50:41
After successfully growing and steering the $582 million sale of Madison-based Third Wave Technologies, Kevin Conroy went looking for another company to run. He found Exact Sciences — a struggling,...
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How Mike Harris Jumped From No. 2 Job To Successful Entrepreneur from 2019-04-22T14:15:04
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 got a job as an auditor with Ernst & Young a...
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How CEO Bob Atwell Created One Of Wisconsin's Largest Banks from 2019-03-25T15:07:07
Bob Atwell’s critical career decisions can be summed up in one word: contrarian.
How Michael Major Grew From Chemist To A Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Company Leader from 2019-02-18T13:04:55
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 as a chemist at Aldrich Chemical. Two year...
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