The SNAP pairs college students looking for real world startup experience with early to mid-stage startup companies that want to hire student interns for spring and summer 2020.

Students and startups, submit your application by Nov. 13 at 5:00 PM. We match applicants with the goal of providing at least three matched (20 minute) interviews at the SNAP on Nov. 19.  You must be available for in-person interviews on Nov. 19 to participate.

What does it cost?  SNAP is free to student applicants and to all startup members of StartingBlock Madison; $50 for non-StartingBlock startups.

Paid / Unpaid internships? While not required, we encourage startups to compensate interns for the work they are doing. The city of Madison sets the livable minimum wage at $13.62/hr.

KEY DATES

NOV. 13, 5:00 PM  – Deadline for students and startups to apply at:  https://www.startingblockmadison.org/programs/snap-internships/

NOV. 16 – Notification of Matches

NOV. 19, 5:00-7:00 PM – SNAP

 

Save the Date for WWBIC’s 2019 Annual Luncheon on December 3rd at the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino in Milwaukee.

This year our luncheon embraces the theme: Let’s Get Real: Explore. Engage. Elevate. On “Giving Tuesday”, WWBIC will celebrate our local heroes: business owners and their small, independent businesses that bring vibrancy, creativity and innovation to our communities. This year we welcome, Mike Colameco as our keynote speaker. Mike has developed a long and storied career in the food and beverage industry … exploring, engaging and enhancing that which nourishes us. We look forward to his insight!

Colameco is a professionally trained chef, author, radio, and TV host. He graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and shared his talents with New York’s noted Four Season’s Restaurant, Windows on the World, Tavern on the Green and The Ritz Carlton. In the late 80’s early 90’s his local community Cape Town, New Jersey was home to his restaurant, The Globe. This rich background as a chef lead him to a successful career in food media: as an author with Mike Colameco’s Food Lover’s Guide to New York City, as a host/producer of the radio show Food Talk, and as a host/producer of Mike Colameco’s Real Food. Since it launched in 2000, Mike Colameco’s Real Food on PBS’ Create TV has been a popular, enduring, documentary style show sharing a real chef’s point of view at how the most influential people in today’s restaurant world are transforming the way we think about food.

Let’s Get Real roots itself in the interpersonal experiences and creative talents small business brings to our communities. When we explore, when we engage, we have the ability to elevate. Here at WWBIC we elevate our communities’ one small business at a time. As they say… many hands make light work. We invite you to join us so WWBIC can continue to match resources and needs supporting Wisconsin’s entrepreneurial community.

This year’s WWBIC’s Luncheon will showcase: WWBIC’s impact in urban and rural Wisconsin; independent, locally owned businesses; food and restaurant businesses; our food heritage, our family farms and the beauty new Americans bring in sharing their cultures.

How to Supercharge Your Food Business for Financial Success

Presented by the Food Finance Institute and Center for Dairy Research

February 4-5 & February 25-26

The Food Finance Institute and Center for Dairy Research and will be holding a four-day boot camp February 4-5 and February 25-26 at Babcock Hall in Madison to help food and beverage companies take their business to the next level.

This fast-paced, intense workshop combines training, one-on-one consulting and networking; taking entrepreneurs like you out of your day-to-day environment and giving you the tools you need to build a more resilient food business.

Boot camp is right for you if:

• Your business is profitable and you want to take its performance to the next level.
• Your business’s market position and profitability are eroding and you know you need to adapt.
• You’re a young company that has never reached profitability and you know things need to change.
• You need to raise money and know you need to get prepared to be successful.

Four intense, focused days to learn and work on your business

Speaker submissions for M+DEV are open for just a couple more days! M+DEV would not be the same without you! Now is your chance to apply to be a speaker. 

 

Looking for technical and business focused talks with original and diverse perspectives about all facets of the #videogame industry. Speakers will be provided complimentary admission to the conference.

Apply at:  https://www.mdevconf.com/submit-a-talk  before November 9, 2019.

New this year M+DEV will have an Emerging Games Showcase!

M+DEV is a video game development conference for professional game developers and those seeking to become professional game developers. This conference provides a gathering place for game developers in the state, the region and beyond to discuss and share the latest information on the science, art, mechanics and business of making games. The conference will be February 14, 2020 at the Alliant Energy Center, 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way, Madison, WI 53713.

The showcase will put a spotlight on up and coming local games. Games accepted into the showcase will be playable during an arcade style event at the conference and featured on the Wisconsin Games Alliance social media accounts, website, and in other M+DEV promotions.

Game must have a playable game build and at least one team member planning on attending M+DEV to be considered for the showcase.

Please submit your game before November 11, 2019 to: https://www.mdevconf.com/#submit-a-game-section.