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SXSW Startups: Steamchain

Austin Startup

SteamChain is based in Milwaukee, Wisc. We love Milwaukee! Michael Bloomberg: He has built an impressive business based on at the crossroads of software, finance and media. This got me to thinking. If gathering and processing the “big data” isn’t the killer app for the Industrial Internet of Things, what is?

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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. For angel groups, the distinction between groups and VCs on this issue is dwindling, especially as angel groups do bigger rounds of financing.   Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.