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The Most Innovative States Of 2013

January 8, 2014 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

Business owners in other states have similar stories to tell. For instance, Phillip Luebke, founder of Brilliant Swim http://brilliantswim.com/ , just launched his first product, the PaceWatch for swimmers, in Bozeman, Montana. Along the road to entrepreneurship, he’s gotten help from Startup Weekend Missoula, StartupBozeman and his local chapter of SCORE.

"If I fail," Luebke says, "it won’t be for lack of an entrepreneurial ecosystem here in Montana."

If you want something to grow, you have to give it an environment in which it can thrive. That simple equation works as well for businesses as it does for plants.

And it’s exactly what the states recently ranked among the best in helping entrepreneurs start successful new businesses did. In a variety of ways, they welcomed new business with open arms and were rewarded with more business startups and higher tax revenue.

By James O’Brien

Full Story: https://www.openforum.com/articles/the-most-innovative-states-of-2013/