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Entrepreneurs’ ideas take shape at UM business seminar. Montana State University grads in a special class of successful entrepreneurs

It takes more than passion and a great idea to start a successful business.

But those are the only requirements for the University of Montana’s second Montana Business Development Seminar, which is being offered by the School of Business Administration this summer.

“The only qualifications are that you are passionate about starting a company, you have an idea but you don’t know where to start,” said Clyde Neu, a management and marketing professor at the school who will be co-teaching the course with fellow business professor Jerry Evans.

By TYLER CHRISTENSEN of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2006/04/29/news/local/news03.txt

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Montana State University grads in a special class

By MARY PICKETT
Of The Gazette Staff

Blaine Halvorson was among a group of talented, dynamic students whom Jeffrey Conger taught during his first year at Montana State University in the early 1990s.

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In addition to the future T-shirt mogul, the group included Coby Schultz and Barry Ament, who started Ames Bros graphic design in Seattle; Hiller Higman, co-owner of a Bozeman marketing and graphic-design company, Bootleg Enterprises; and Chris Purcell, the former art director of Montana Magazine.

"They were a top-drawer class," Conger said. "They had a collective energy that was amazing and pushed each other."

Full Story: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/29/features/life/25-grads.txt

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