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Statewide event explores Wisconsin companies' leadership needs.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2004
By Ben Jones, The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 17--MADISON, Wis. -- It takes more than high-tech ideas to find success in a high-tech business venture.
"You need the right people with the right experience, especially early on, to avoid what I would call unforced errors," said Eric Apfelbach, president and CEO of Virent Energy Systems, a Madison-based high-tech firm.
Apfelbach was one of three entrepreneurs who talked about the importance of securing business leadership for early-stage science and tech-based companies at a forum Tuesday. The event was last in a series of forums called "Building the New Wisconsin Economy."
The Post-Crescent, along with other Gannett Wisconsin newspapers,...
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