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ActionsTalk #26 – Thief Wine

You all know that I’m all about celebrating small victories. It provides the drive to keep after it and onto the next one. Today Blake and I are celebrating a large victory! ActionsTalk (the original name of this blog), what started out as a fun project to meet entrepreneurs, has now morphed into a full [...]

Blake and I with ActionsTalk had the extreme honor of being a part of small group of people that were featured in the October issue of Magazine SOHO. The article was called Milwaukee 2.0 – Socially Networked and Authentic Professionals Magazine SOHO is a print version of SOHObiztube.com, a online networking site that focuses on [...]

In the past 3+ months ActionsTalk has grown from a conference to a full blown startup spotlight hub. We’ve served the national (soon global) startup community and we’ve worked to serve the local Milwaukee community as well. Our growth along with some awesome viewer feedback (thanks to Frank of Brew Brands) we’ve found a way [...]

Recently the startup incubator TechStars based in Boulder, CO graduated another class of promising startups. ActionsTalk has reached out to a few of the recently graduated companies for a few startup spotlights. We are already scheduling interviews with BuyPlayWin and ignighter.   Look for more great startup spotlights at ActionsTalk and let me know if [...]

Watch Spreenkler live. Blake and I just presented ActionsTalk 2.0 to the group. Frank just told us a story about how his company Brew City Brands manufactured a Milwaukee County Jail jump suit and that person got arrested just riding a bus because the bus driver thought he was a convict. Then they had to [...]

As some of you may know, ActionsTalk has been evolving.  Two months ago, we set out to create a conference in the Milwaukee area that brought together three key pieces of successful tech companies:  1. Tech savvy developers/engineers,  2. business minded entrepreneurs, and 3. venture capital.  We saw the potential for the idea when we [...]

ActionsTalk as you already may now is going to become a web/entrepreneurship conference and community in the Milwaukee area. The area has incredible technical skills which provides the potential of some great companies and innovations coming out of the area. The missing ingredient here is the collaboration that needs to take place in order for [...]