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Statewide CEC conference calls for community involvement
2 Jul 2025
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Community, collaboration, and access to capital are the key drivers that have fueled Wisconsin’s economy, Shayna Hetzel, WEDC vice president of entrepreneurship and innovation, told a conference in Wisconsin Rapids.
Those three factors have turned audacious ideas into global corporations, Hetzel said. And they did not emerge from corporate boardrooms, but rather from kitchen tables and garages.
For example: Kitchen and bath design leader Kohler got its start in 1883 in Sheboygan when John Michael Kohler applied an enamel coating onto a horse trough and attached four legs, inventing the bathtub. In Milwaukee, pals William Harley and Arthur Davidson, working in a backyard shed in 1903, secured an engine onto a bicycle and launched the legendary motorcycle company, Harley-Davidson.
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