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"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." -- Herm Albright
Come Home Montana
Funding and Building your Business
- Baby boomers migrate to Rocky Mountain West
Baby boomers, in particular, are gravitating toward the peaks and sagebrush basins of Wyoming and Montana, promising to turn these states from relatively young into two of the nation's oldest.
University Business Plan Competitions
- Blogging’s a Low-Cost, High Return Marketing Tool
TO its true believers at small businesses, it is a low-cost, high-return tool that can handle marketing and public relations, raise the company profile and build the brand.
- Inside Entrepreneurship: What you need to know to start a small business
On average, small-business owners enjoy three times the net worth of their salaried counterparts.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Online shipping idea wins BYU Web Business Competition. eTake
"eTake will connect people who need goods moved to a location with people who are going that direction anyway,"
Montana Economic Development
- Snorting a Brain Chemical Could Replace Sleep
The discovery's first application will probably be in treatment of the severe sleep disorder narcolepsy.
Idaho Business
- Building a future: Plan to outline what Missoula, Montana should look like over next 20 years
“No matter where you live in Missoula, everybody in the community has a healthy interest in a vibrant downtown,” said Linda McCarthy, executive director of the Missoula Downtown Association.
- Montana World Trade Center Global Trade Certificate Program Graduates 35
“This group has become the core of the most knowledgeable people in the region on global trade” said Arnie Sherman, director of The University of Montana-based MWTC.
Montana Education Excellence
- Starting up: It's not easy, but Boise can create a better economic culture
Don't underestimate the intangibles. Having an entrepreneurial culture is important to growing the economy here.
- Melaleuca Inc. of Idaho Falls, Idaho adds 843 jobs in 5 years, not the 111 that it originally promised....
The Idaho Falls company has added 843 jobs since obtaining the loan, compared with 111 promised when the loan was made, VanderSloot says.
Leadership Montana
- Rural schools money left out of budget bill
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and others secured an extra year's worth of funding but that will expire in 2008 unless renewed.
- Kids dig into Montana computer camp
The two-day camp, held at the Montana State University Billings Downtown campus, puts kids through a computer boot camp, complete with disassembling and rebuilding a computer that they get to take home.
- Management Leaders Turn Their Attention to Followers
In "Followership," a book being published this winter, Ms. Kellerman argues that a big organization's fate can be surprisingly dependent on how well it understands thousands of low-ranking employees, and makes them more effective.
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