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Golden like the No. 10 (🤩) ... FOR-M celebrates its 10th cohort! After a 12-week journey, we're thrilled to add a new cohort to our alumni network. In signature fashion, we celebrated by hearing pitches from our founders and awarded $10K to each of these founders in support of their startup: 1️⃣ Marcus Wright, of Artist Collective, a growth processing website designed to help artists achieve success on their art journey. 2️⃣ Jasmine Mercado, MBA + Luz Mercado, of Financial Blueprint, a platform that revolutionizes the technical assistance process for small businesses seeking to purchase commercial real estate by automating the creation of comprehensive financial packages. 3️⃣ Terrance Thomas, of Forbidden Plates, a lively and spontaneous tech-enabled card game designed to test players' quickness and creativity. 4️⃣ Eric Tallmadge, of Geddit Local, a digital community bulletin board showing users nearby events and activities based on posts from local businesses and residents. 5️⃣ Peter Smith, of Neon Labs, tech that transforms live events by synchronizing audience smartphones into visual displays that pulse with the music, creating immersive experiences without requiring app downloads. FOR-M is a great showing of the #MKETech startup community, and we want to thank those who have been alongside us in reaching this milestone, including advisors, coaches, judges and founders. CHEERS!

Spotted! MKE Tech Hub Coalition’s FOR-M Founders Showcase celebrated to completion of its 10 cohort and the startup ecosystem came to Ward4 to celebrate with them! Did we spot you there?

Spotted! The Ward4 Marquette Invitational Business Model Pitch Competition brought out student entrepreneurs from Milwaukee Area Technical College, Marquette University, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Stay tuned to learn about the early-stage companies and the prize winners! Did we spot you there?

It’s the final Founders Day of 2024! Featured speaker (and lunch sponsor!) Taureau Group, LLC spoke about how to create financial projections as an emerging business owner and featured some great online tools to make the task easier. Thank you to Ward4, CSA Partners, MKE Tech Hub Coalition with FOR-M and We Pivot as well as Midwest Founders Community for a great year! Did we spot you there? If not, we hope to see you in 2025 🙂

A great opportunity #give and #receive #mentoring on any area of business expertise from #marketing, #HR, #finance, etc! And, thanks to the support of Taureau Group, LLC, lunch will be provided with a special topic around total addressable market and valuing your business! We hope you'll spend a couple hours co-working at Ward4 with other innovators in the community! A great collaborative community effort!

Spotted! Founders Day at Ward4 is in full swing. If this looks like fun to you- pop in. Founders and members of the startup ecosystem will be co-working and networking all day. Did we spot you there?

Spotted! We popped into Founders Day hosted at Ward4 today! This fun, free event is designed to help founders connect with resources- and each other. The startup ecosystem meets the last Wednesday of every month from 8 AM- happy hour. Did we spot you there?

Come for the professional development + team meetings, stay for the pup + the brews. 💛 Always a good time when we all get together at Ward4! #Milwaukee #DigitalMarketing