Wisconsin ranks last again for start-ups - as a WI native & entrep.this is painful to read... N.E. WI needs an Accelerator

"For the second year in a row, Wisconsin has earned a bottom-of-the-barrel ranking for start-up business activity"... http://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/onramp/2016/08/25/wisconsin-innovation-last-again/89313028/

The be sure entrepreneur activity is not zero but compared to other states/regions it's nothing to brag about. As an independent (and indy thinker) I sense that the cacophony of news, policy decisions, statements, the posture of those decision makers at the state level, the changes (damage) done to the University rep. and budget reverberates in a non positive way with many millennials. This only exacerbates the impression that I've read and felt for years that many hold that the Mid-West is a 'fly-over' between coast for many investors and others. Despite all that we continue with our innovations and entrepreneur activity here in WI. because we are passionate about our home state and hopeful about its future regardless of the (regressive) holding pattern or state seems to be on for many. Maybe I should push forward our accelerator for our region. Every bit helps right. Accelerator in N.E. WI See our pdf outline. Thanks 

Musk has lit a fire under VW..

Maybe VW can redeem themselves after the unethical BS with this huge see change in direction to EVs'. See article 
Notes from artivcle
"In case you haven't noticed, these are all things that Tesla plans to do. Just to give the scale of the might that Volkswagen has, Tesla's gigafactory is completely dwarfed by the $11 billion battery factory that Volkswagen is planning in Salzburg.
...looking at the goals that Volkswagen has set for itself, Volkswagen has definitely set out to be the leader in EVs. Volkswagen is looking at 2-3 million cars a year, with 30 models launched by 2025, while phasing out 40 models of conventional cars."
Maybe they can even get a head start by getting their hands on Tesla's 'open' innovation patents.

Take Tesla Private And Other Thoughts (Take Solar City private too.)

Seems like an attempt of the 'strategy' that halted the smart environmental movement back in the 70's has got their greedy little fingers synchronized in a effort to slow this (today's) movement to a smarter world.
As a Tesla investor and concerned citizen of our path, I suggest that Tesla is taken private. Until steady earnings and all the other bullshit that perplexes Wall Street is behind them.

Another thought. I wonder how a really low priced long term (and I mean long term) lease would work. Maybe one to go after those just buying there first new car, timed with college, tech school graduation. Make it so reasonable upfront that it would be hard to resist. Scale the payments increasing so that as they the customer earn more they pay more. Maybe a a 6, 7, 8 year or more lease. Starting like $149 $199 a month. Use the logic of the fin. company Cabbage to determine (outside of normal scores) who would be good for it. Hopefully the free Super Charger thing stays as part of the plan if so and once the youth really find out about this in mass it's game over. If you don't buy a Tesla you surely can still use the Super Chargers except you have to pay! Less then gas but you still have to pay!

From all I hear it's (a Tesla) designed to last endlessly updated-able. Maybe work towards a unique in house trade in program start in our starter car eventually hand it off to another starting out and you move into a upgrade!

Another, pair it up (the lease) with a Solar install. And throw in a Power Wall to boot.

Last one for today _ early on Tesla I thought was really on track with this idea letting their platform be the platform for other car companies to use under their carriage. Like Mercedes was testing. I think that was really good and I hope to see that revisited to accelerate this whole thing. Back in the day (way back) they had companies building the carriages and other companies - the 'branded' bodies. You hold the future in your hands, distribute in faster.

We published a couple digital magazines and this one featured Musk's 'secret weapon' J.B. Straubel. We both have a Door County connection. Article starts on page 44 Link.

Have a Uncubed day.
Perry
Uncubed Studios.

R.I.P. Arthur Fischer The Man With The Most Patents In The World.

Artur Fischer, Inventor With More Patents Than Edison, Dies at 96 When I first read of this gentleman years ago I was quite intrigued. "Mr. Fischer, a locksmith by training and an obsessive tinkerer, came up with his first patented invention in 1947, when he wanted to take pictures of his newborn daughter." “At the time, you could only use a powder flash for interior shots, which you had to ignite with a cord,” he told the magazine Der Spiegel in 2015. “It was dangerous, and the picture quality was poor because the subject usually blinked at the flash.” Necessity the mother of invention. Seems about the right way to describe his first invention. Then the floods gates of invention opened. R.I.P. He truly was a Uncubed Thinker!