{"id":1498,"date":"2005-06-27T00:05:25","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T00:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2005-06-27T00:05:25","modified_gmt":"2005-06-27T00:05:25","slug":"milwaukees_maso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee&#8217;s Mason Wells Venture Capital Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Gallagher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/bym\/news\/jun05\/336720.asp\">writes a  positive<\/a> article on <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=%22Trevor+D%27Souza%22\">Trevor D&#8217;Souza<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=%22Dan+Broderick%22+Mason\">Dan Broderick<\/a>, Managing Directors of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masonwells.com\/Index.htm\">Mason Wells&#8217;<\/a> first venture capital fund, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22mason+wells+Biomedical+Fund+1%22&#038;sourceid=mozilla-search&#038;start=0&#038;start=0&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\">Biomedical Fund 1<\/a>.  MW has invested in two Madison firms: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nameprotect.com\/\">NameProtect<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opgen.com\/\">Opgen<\/a> among other midwest startups.<br \/>\nVC&#8217;s certainly play a useful role in the business growth process.  That role is not always decisive.  Interestingly, many of them do NOT fund startups.  They&#8217;d rather let someone else (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angel_investors\">angel investors<\/a>) take that risk.  Anyone interested in this area should read another perspective: internet entrepreneur Paul Graham&#8217;s essay: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/venturecapital.html\">The Unified Theory of VC Suckage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Gallagher writes a positive article on Trevor D&#8217;Souza and Dan Broderick, Managing Directors of Mason Wells&#8217; first venture capital fund, Biomedical Fund 1. MW has invested in two Madison firms: NameProtect and Opgen among other midwest startups. VC&#8217;s certainly play a useful role in the business growth process. That role is not always decisive. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}