Montana University startup challenge goes big at 27th annual event

From beginning to end, the competition was stiff at the 27th annual John Ruffatto Business Startup Challenge http://www.business.umt.edu/orgs/made/startup-challenge/default.php , held at the Gallagher School of Business at UM. The event drew 16 entrepreneurs looking to secure the funding needed to send their business on to the next stage of development.

The challenge and the incentives that come with it only grows Montana’s standing as one of the nation’s entrepreneurial hotbeds. While Silicon Valley gets all the glory, the New York Times reported last year, "the real hotbed of American entrepreneurship appears to be a few hundred miles to the northeast in Montana."

By Martin Kidston/MISSOULA CURRENT

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