{"id":242,"date":"2004-05-11T23:06:48","date_gmt":"2004-05-11T23:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2004-05-11T23:06:48","modified_gmt":"2004-05-11T23:06:48","slug":"madison_is_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Madison is #1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.360vp.com\/madison\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.360vp.com\/madison\/360msnhdr4.jpg\" BORDER=\"0\" TITLE=\"Virtual Properties Quicktime VR Panorama of Monona Terrace\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2004\/0524\/120_print.html\">Forbes Mark Tatge<\/a> writes about our &#8220;Miracle in the Midwest&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>David C. Schwartz is right at home in the dark. That&#8217;s where his fluorescent microscopes can do their work, scanning thousands of samples of DNA that make a slow crawl across computer screens and methodically map the human genome. All this activity is packed into a cramped room inside a lab at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. &#8220;Most people think I came here because I hated New York,&#8221; he says with a boyish smile and a twitch of the mustache that curls over his lip. &#8220;I came here to start a company<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/free_forbes\/2004\/0524\/124sidebar.html\">Interesting sidebar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Out-of-state venture capitalists complain that most of these hatchlings need better management. G. Steven Burrill, who runs the San Francisco merchant bank Burrill &#038; Co. and has invested $15 million to $20 million in young Wisconsin companies, bemoans the failure to capitalize on opportunities. &#8220;We see 100 deals a month in life sciences,&#8221; he explains. &#8220;But I don&#8217;t see even one a month from Madison<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Burrill is correct &#8211; while there are many opportunities here, it is not generally a risk taking culture&#8230;. unfortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes Mark Tatge writes about our &#8220;Miracle in the Midwest&#8221;: David C. Schwartz is right at home in the dark. That&#8217;s where his fluorescent microscopes can do their work, scanning thousands of samples of DNA that make a slow crawl across computer screens and methodically map the human genome. All this activity is packed into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}