Startup of the Week: Golf Pipeline

Golf Pipeline is quickly becoming the Facebook and OpenTable for the golf industry. Just as OpenTable did for the restaurant industry, Golf Pipeline offers golfers the ability to book tee times at their favorite local golf courses. And, using the power of social networks, golfers can invite their friends to play golf by selecting from fellow Golf Pipeline friends, Facebook friends, LinkedIn contacts or using a friend’s email address. Golfers can return to the website to track their scores, establish a USGA Handicap Index®, build a golf profile (which shows a golfer’s equipment and other preferences to Golf Pipeline friends) and see all golfer friend activity — who played where, what scores they posted and who became friends with whom.

Golf Pipeline has 350 golf courses available to book tee times at in 23 states, but heavily concentrated in Milwaukee, Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis and Detroit. However, the Golf Pipeline website is able to be used by any golfer and for any golf course in the United States — public or private. For golf courses that don’t yet offer tee times on Golf Pipeline, a golfer can manually add their tee time (and invite their friends to join) and post their score. Check out this great addition to your golf game. It’s FREE to join and once you do, you can use the social features to invite your golfer friends into your Golf Pipeline network!

GE Healthcare Global Design Challenge

We’re looking for new ideas from new people to help us build them! 

Wanted:  Fresh, Milwaukee area communications and creative agencies with the talent to help us build and deliver powerful messages for our global brand. Interest in underground initiatives, where ideas are in early proof of concept phases, is a must.   

We will pitch to YOU! 

We are experimenting with a new way to develop relationships with innovative, creative firms. We want you to get to know us and for us get to know you in an open format. We will immerse you briefly in our work and methods, reflect on your observations, and lay out the details of our impending projects. 

May 23 (If you have what it takes, you’ll make it in. For now, hold the date)

10am-1pm

GEHC Global Design Studio, Waukesha, WI 

Interested?
1. Send us a brief description of your firm with contact information. 

2. Link to some of your work
3. Email us the name(s), including a 1 line description, for 1-2 people from your firm that would attend the session in May. 
4. In a few words answer the question, what is your firm’s self-described style and why is it unique? 

Do this by May 10. Mail to Laurie.Schroeder@ge.com Subject: GD Challenge

We will review your interest and select several firms to participate in this first session. Notifications will be made by May 15.

Who is Global Design?
Global Design is a comprehensive, cross-functional design organization within GE Healthcare spread across 6 world class studios in 5 countries.  Our core mission is our responsibility to create breakthrough innovations for GE across all phases of patient care while driving design & design culture across the corporation.  We believe in gaining insights and empathy through cross-industry fertilization and experiences, and as such we actively seek to engage non-healthcare GE businesses to incubate new ideas and connections.  

Announcing our Mentorship Program!

We are excited to announce the launch of the Startup Milwaukee Mentorship program!

The program is designed to support entrepreneurs who are starting technology and technology-enabled service businesses in Southeastern Wiscosnin by connecting entrepreneurs to mentors from the entrepreneurial, corporate, investment and academic communities.

If you are an entrepreneur or mentor who would like to participate in the program, click here!