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How Did You Do That?

WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

What does it take for an entrepreneur to go from an idea to a successful startup? Hosts Kathleen Gallagher and Tim Keane talk with Wisconsin entrepreneurs about how - and why - they've succeeded. Kathleen Gallagher is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the executive director of the Milwaukee Institute. Tim Keane is the director of Golden Angels Investors and an entrepreneur who led his own startup to a profitable acquisition.

  • 29 minutes 23 seconds
    Introducing 'Midwest Moxie'
    Introducing Midwest Moxie, a new podcast about the successes, failures, insights and opportunities that shape some of the Midwest’s most exciting entrepreneurs.15148558.gif
    14 March 2022, 3:12 pm
  • 13 minutes 43 seconds
    How Chris Salm Went From Sausage Making To Commercializing University Research
    On the latest installment of our series on entrepreneurship, How Did You Do That?, host Kathleen Gallagher speaks with Chris Salm about how he went from working at several large food companies to commercializing research out of UW-Madison.15053003.gif
    30 March 2021, 7:07 pm
  • 15 minutes 39 seconds
    How Rock Mackie Improved Radiation Therapy And Grew Successful Companies
    Rock Mackie is a medical physicist who invented a safer type of therapeutic radiation, called tomotherapy, that delivers less radiation with just as much effectiveness. It has saved many lives.14359429.gif
    6 January 2021, 4:09 pm
  • 17 minutes
    How Glen Tullman Uses Digital Solutions To Address Health Care Challenges
    Glen Tullman has an undergraduate degree in economics and psychology, spent a year in Oxford, England studying social anthropology, lived for a year with the Amish, and is a highly successful software entrepreneur. He's founded, grown or invested in more than 20 businesses.14359430.gif
    23 November 2020, 6:52 pm
  • 17 minutes 14 seconds
    How Lori Cross Drove Innovation Inside Corporations By Thinking Big & Acting Small
    Lori Cross dropped out of her all-girls’ high school in Michigan because there wasn’t enough physics and math to keep her challenged. Technical college was a little better, but Cross found her place at Northwestern University, where she got a degree in chemical engineering and became the first woman to play ice hockey on a men’s NCAA team.14359431.gif
    26 October 2020, 7:28 pm
  • 18 minutes 22 seconds
    How John Splude Built A Software Company Out Of A Public Accounting Career
    John Splude began his career in public accounting, auditing some of the biggest companies in the area. But he stayed involved with his firm’s smaller clients along with the Fortune 50 companies. And he became more and more interested in the operations side of the businesses.14359432.gif
    24 September 2020, 3:17 pm
  • 16 minutes 50 seconds
    How Robert Jordan Went From Truck Driver To Entrepreneur
    Robert Jordan spent 20 years as a trucker, driving loads of cheese and other dairy products across the country. Over the miles he educated himself by listening to books on tape and spent hours thinking about how to solve some of the problems he encountered on the road.14359433.gif
    28 August 2020, 6:15 pm
  • 17 minutes 53 seconds
    How Ralph Kauten Leans Into Life Sciences Market Trends
    Ralph Kauten is a true serial entrepreneur. He co-founded two life sciences companies that sold for a combined $200-plus million and was involved very early in three more. The biggest of those, Promega, has about $450 million of revenue and operations around the world.14359434.gif
    28 July 2020, 9:56 pm
  • 17 minutes 12 seconds
    How Loren Peterson Drove The Success Of A Drug Development Startup
    Loren Peterson’s path to a successful startup company began on a Nebraska farm. It was a half-mile from the nearest neighbor, 1 mile from where his Swedish ancestors homesteaded, and several miles from the closest town of 600 people. He spent a lot of time hanging out with his two siblings, stacking hay and irrigating cornfields in 100-degree heat, and reading books from the school library and the Bookmobile.14359435.gif
    25 March 2020, 7:43 pm
  • 14 minutes 9 seconds
    How James Phelps Grew His Own Construction Company
    James Phelps thought about starting his own business for a long time. He turned the idea over and over in his mind while: learning about the trades at Milwaukee Tech, working in the Milwaukee Public School district's facilities department, rehabbing houses on the side, getting his undergraduate degree in finance and finishing a commercial real estate certificate program.14359436.gif
    2 March 2020, 5:38 pm
  • 18 minutes 13 seconds
    How Lori Hoch Abandoned A Successful Law Career To Run A Startup
    Lori Hoch graduated first in her class from University of Southern California law school, worked at two of Milwaukee’s biggest law firms, then became in-house counsel for the trust department of Wisconsin’s largest bank. She was on track for a comfortable corporate legal career.14359437.gif
    16 January 2020, 11:55 pm
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