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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 develops smart contracts for clients. SteamChain is based in Milwaukee, Wisc. We love Milwaukee! They don’t just create dashboards that need to be monitored.

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When All Else Fails.Manipulate The Data - Startups and angels.

Tim Keane

I saw that on a t-shirt worn by a bartender at the Milwaukee Irish Fest last night. So, I believe that the diligence process is really about learning together and developing not only projections that are reasonable, but also a way to stress test every one of our assumptions, paying real attention to the ones that, if wrong, will kill us.

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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. In Italy, if you bankrupt your business, you lose your driving privileges until you get a job and pay off all of the creditors. The big money model of business development is utterly predominant. It was bootstrapped. It was bootstrapped.