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SXSW Startups: Steamchain

Austin Startup

They enable new business models that bring purpose to clients’ IIoT investments by connecting financial transactions to machinery performance. SteamChain is based in Milwaukee, Wisc. We love Milwaukee! They don’t just create dashboards that need to be monitored. This got me to thinking.

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People are the whole game - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

In brief, my own story involves a software company called RTMS in Milwaukee.   It was simple   - Reduce costs and improve consumer experience for the large retailers. So the big guy gets bigger, protected by a system of imposing costs and inefficiencies that makes true entrepreneurship pretty difficult.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

« Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee | Main. 3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model. Startups and angels: Along the way to success.