Wellspring Blog

Currently, 16.6% of Cook County’s population is facing food insecurity, meaning 860,670 people are unsure of when they will have their next meal. 24.5% of the area's hungry are children. In some communities, the food insecurity rate is as high as 1 in 3 individuals. Read More

Wellspring is a pretty entertaining place to work. With all of the passionate people here, focusing on exciting projects, it’s hard for me to nail down my favorite thing about what we do. Read More

Few people can start a buzz quite like Elon Musk.  Even his cars get people to stop and stare as they drive down the street.  Me? I actually offered a guy at my gym money if he’d let me drive his Model S around the block.  (He declined. Turns out if you spend $70,000 on a car, you’re not willing to... Read More

I attended the recent ASTP Conference in Oslo, and was fortunate enough to be there as the conferenced honored one of the key people behind the success of that organization who is leaving that organization.  She certainly can be described as a magician when it comes to managing a conference.  It... Read More

I’m a fairly organized person, but I have my moments.  Occasionally I misplace a thing or two, but rarely something like house keys that sends me into panic mode.  Usually instead whatever I uncover is often a serendipitous little find. Read More

My usual office view is a beautiful one.  From my desk at the Wellspring offices, I can see straight east in downtown Chicago, with a great view of the John Hancock building.  This last week, however, that view changed a bit as the company picked up and moved to Louisville, Kentucky – just for a... Read More

I will keep my first post short, given that I have just returned to the world of technology transfer after a short hiatus with other knowledge management disciplines, including a short stint for a start up software company in the realm of document and records compliance in the Cloud.  Returning to... Read More

Last week Barcelona was the place to be with both the colossal Mobile World Congress and the much more targeted Breakthrough Innovations (BI) conference. BI was focused on innovative product development with product leaders from a range of industries, including telecom to consumer products to... Read More

I'm delighted to announce today that Wellspring has closed a $5M round of growth capital led by MK Capital. We concluded 2013 with our strongest year to date, posting substantial, profitable growth in each of our major sectors: academic markets, corporate innovation / R&D, and health care.... Read More

You interview, hire, show them to their desks, and then what, hope for the best?  Hiring an inspired and innovative staff is one of the biggest challenges you as a manager will ever take on, but getting innovative results from your staff takes more than just hiring the best candidate. Read More