It doesn’t seem like five years have already passed since I wrote about Madison Startup’s five-year anniversary. Yet, here we are today celebrating 10 years of bringing a voice to Madison’s startup scene.
In that time, we’ve written more than 2,000 articles covering events, biotech/life sciences companies, tech companies and businesses selling goods or services. We’ve maintained our startup events calendar and startup resources page.
Our news stories continue to be syndicated by WisBusiness and the Forward Festival newsletter, which has now become Capital Entrepreneurs’ bi-monthly Startup Digest. Now that organizations are hosting in-person events again, we’ve resumed taking event photos for our Facebook page.
Thank you to all our readers who have supported us over the years. I also want to thank all our current and past sponsors. Even though Madison Startups is a for-profit enterprise, we’re only raising enough funds to cover our expenses.
We look forward to the next 10 years and beyond.
Milestones
- April 2013 – Startup database page launches
- July 2013 – Madison Startups is the first news outlet to report on StartingBlock Madison
- August 2013 – Our editor-in-chief helps to launch Madworks Coworking at University Research Park
- February 2014 – WisBusiness begins syndicating our news
- June 2015 – Our editor-in-chief is interviewed for a book about Midwest tech companies
- February 2016 – First “The Week Ahead” is published
- June 2016 – Startup events page launches
- July 2016 – Greater Madison Chamber begins republishing our health tech stories on its Healthtech Capitol website
- March 2017 – Startup resources page launches
- May 2017 – Forward Festival begins syndicating our news in a weekly newsletter
- July 2020 – Madison Startups joins Start In Wisconsin, a website with curated resources
- March 2021 – The weekly newsletter becomes the monthly Startup Digest
