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"The real goal is fostering the entrepreneurial student, and that's a student who's entrepreneurial in his or her whole life." Anne Miner http://matr.net/articl ... .html
TechRanch
Highway 12 Ventures
- I'm Fed Up With Razor Blades
I'm feeling the downside of the razor/razorblade product model.
MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association
- Thankless Jobs: CTO and Left Tackle
So what does the CTO of a tech start-up do anyway?
Come Home Montana
- The December Montana Economic Developers Association Online news
VauthierFerguson Design has completed the MEDA Membership search and expertise database. Should your company be a member of MEDA?
Three Cups of Tea - The Central Asia Institute
- In recession, one road led back home to Missoula, Montana
Spending so much time with family in Montana has helped her "thaw out from the go-go-go of D.C.,"
Montana Business
- “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” -- Greg Mortenson’s new book a tale of adventure, heroes
Millions of people read Greg Mortenson’s first book, “Three Cups of Tea,” and many probably closed the covers thinking “and he lived happily ever after.”
Developing Funding Opportunities in Montana
- Business owners go online to boost bottom line
Using the Web successfully to boost a bottom line requires a strategy to meet specific goals, experts say.
- Montana industries have eyes on global climate pact
I think if climate change is in motion, we have to plan on it. There's lots of really smart people thinking about this."
- Clean living: Rivertop Renewables of Missoula, Montana's environmentally friendly invention has ‘potential to change world’
"We know some of the things that this product can be used for," Kiely said, "but there's a lot of other applications we haven't even thought of yet. We would like to work with others who are interested in developing those possibilities."
- Northwestern Energy to provide 'smart-grid' technology in Helena, Montana
When trying to describe what a smart grid is, it might be easier to explain first what it isn’t.
- Mamalode Contest for Mom-owned Businesses
We want to know what makes your business special and why it is in a great position to receive this award.
- Western Montana InBusiness - December 2009 - Gifts, parties, sick leave and flu usher out 2009
May the month to come find you healthy and smiling, enjoying 2009's farewell and looking forward to a bright and successful new year.
- Family owned, community driven, award winning - Axmen of Missoula, Montana succeeding through generations
"The focus wasn't on 'do you make money?' as much as it was about what you bring to the community (as a family-run business) and whether what you are trying to promote or build has longevity and value to the community," says Hanson.
- S&K Electronics receives excellence award
S&K Electronics maintains annual sales around $15 million. The company continues to invest in new leading technologies, employee training, customer service and the latest manufacturing processes to further grow sales and profitability for the future.
Funding and Building your Business
- Bill would boost tax credits for angel investors
"This is building off successful economic development programs we have in place and building new ones that will set the stage for future economic growth in Wisconsin that will help companies survive the recession and come out of it stronger to compete with national and global competitors," said Lassa, chairman of the Senate Committee on Economic Development.
Incubators and R&D
- Build Your Business By Promoting Competitors
Businesses should not ignore their competitors -- or try to bury them, Lisa Barone writes. Sometimes it's best to "embrace them and build your business by promoting your competitors," she suggests, citing four reasons why such a strategy might work.
- The 10 Questions Your Company Should Never Stop Asking
Companies run aground for the same basket of reasons, so don't forget the fundamentals.
- How to Protect Your Brilliant Idea
Safeguarding your company's intellectual property through patents, trademarks or copyrights will allow you to seek damages, a big deterrent to imitators. Here's a brief overview of all three types of protection.
- Should Start-Ups Pay to Pitch?
A Boston-based angel investment group called Revolutionary Angels believes $4,995 is a fair fee.
- Great CIOs ask good questions: What makes a great CIO?
Great executives, including great CIOs demonstrate mastery not by the answers they give, but by the questions they ask.
Montana Education Excellence
- National Park Service seeks share of profitable science research
The National Park Service is rolling out a new policy for companies and others who stand to profit from conducting scientific research in national parks.
University TechTransfer
- Cruzado off to promising start as Montana State University’s next president
“Montana State University is on its way to great things,” Cruzado said in an interview, echoing Gamble’s trademark optimism and penchant for bragging about MSU, its faculty and students.
- Area alum, Jon Boyle, wins top science award
Boyle called Great Falls High "just a great school" that prepared him for higher education.
- University of Montana graduate, Sean Sullivan, develops iPhone app to aid student research - Questia
Sean Sullivan, a 1993 UM journalism graduate, is director of consumer sales and marketing for Questia, which offers 76,000 textbooks and 2.7 million journals, magazines and newspaper articles online.
- Learning Chinese important for Montana's students and the future success of Montana
This year, for the first time in Montana, instruction in Mandarin Chinese has been introduced into our state’s public schools. Because there are no certified teachers of Chinese in Montana, the instruction is being provided from the Confucius Institute in the Mansfield Center at the University of Montana by two young teachers from China.
- University of Montana names director of new Student Success Office
The Office for Student Success is not so much a new UM entity as it is a combination of existing university services meant to increase student retention rates, said Associate Provost Arlene Walker-Andrews.
- National Conference On Undergraduate Research, 4/15-17, University Of Montana
“It’s the greatest show on earth,” Smith said. “No, really, it’s a big deal. When else do you get students from 250 to 300 colleges and universities on your campus?”
Developing an Angel Network in Montana
- Park's EnterpriseWorks helps make 'tech transfer' work
The entrepreneur-in-residence program, also new, involves the university hiring someone with entrepreneurial experience for four hours a week of on-site consulting at EnterpriseWorks and other programs or workshops.
- University of Montana'sTech Transfer Notes November 2009 - UM Welcomes New Tech Transfer Director, Joe Fanguy
In closing this first UM Tech Transfer Note, I'd like to briefly introduce the topic of technology transfer by encouraging you to read an attached article entitled “Should Universities Be Agents of Economic Development?”
Idaho Business
- SEC Looking At Angel Groups
Denver Keiretsu Forum itself plans to shut down next month, after being unable to get enough members to become self-supporting (the group lost money in 2007 and 2009 – losses that Murchie will have to personally absorb).
Utah Economic Development
- Idaho raises the bar on climate change
Under a new agreement, the first 'clean-coal' plant in the nation could open near American Falls by 2015.
Education
- Another Biotech Company Expands to Utah
The State of Utah continues to see a strong level of interest from biotech and life science companies looking for a favorable place to relocate or expand their operations.
Energy and Climate Change
- Teachers begin using cell phones for class lessons
ad_icon "I can use my cell phone for all these things, why can't I use it for learning purposes?'" Leonard said. "Giving them something, a mobile device, that they use every day for fun, giving them another avenue to learn outside of the classroom with that."
- The cap-and-trade debate
“There is a real potential for growth to be had.”
- Protecting the Forests, and Hoping for Payback - Carbon credits spell new future for forests
"There's a sweetspot where a landowner can potentially balance your timber value with your carbon values," said Fehrenbacher. "As this market emerges it's becoming more of a reality. Landowners' interest is very high right now."
- Climate Change Is Inevitable — It’s Time to Adapt
The really inconvenient truth: We’re toast. Fried. Steamed. Poached. More so than even many hand-wringing carbonistas admit.
- Boulder looking to help landlords make rental units more energy-efficient
Boulder is seeking a unique way of mending the debate between landlords and tenants on energy-efficiency -- a single program for homeowners to meet proposed new standards.
- Schooling Fish Inspire Efficient Wind Farms
The patterns that schooling fish form to save energy while swimming have inspired a new wind farm design that researchers say will increase the amount of power produced per acre by at least tenfold.
- A more intelligent power grid is on the horizon
The good news is that the electric power industry is changing. It is using advanced communications technology to make the system more and more efficient.
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