These five local leaders in the business community do more than just grow their own businesses—they contribute to Madison’s extraordinary history of doing well by doing good. Madison Magazine has always recognized the impact that our region’s business community has had on life in our city. The very pages of this magazine each month have…

We were excited to meet students from Yweb and show them around our coworking space. YWeb Career Academy is an employment service program that trains women and people of color to become web developers/designers. The three-month program covers technical skills such as design, HTML, CSS, and Javascript and employability skills such as project management, interview practice…

We were excited to talk to students from Lagos Business School in Nigeria. We discussed entrepreneurship, coworking, and building an ecosystem. Lagos Business School is the graduate business school of the Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria. LBS offers academic programmes, executive programmes and short focused programmes in Management that have been ranked among the best in Africa.…

Two-year commitment to local entrepreneur hub bolsters community support MADISON, Wis.—Summit Credit Union has agreed to a two-year sponsor partnership with Madison start-up and entrepreneurial center 100state, which will see the member-owned financial cooperative offer support totaling $20,000 over the next two years. 100state is Wisconsin’s largest co-working community. The Madison-based nonprofit supports innovative professionals…