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Business Lessons From Blue Man Group

The organization that Wink and partners Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton founded in 1988 is Blue Man Group. "Little Room" is on the founders’ mind because Blue Man faces a similar conundrum: How to define their enterprise, stretch it, and reach a larger audience — without losing the things that made it special when they were starting out.

12 Universities Join $15M Border Security and Technology Initiative

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced the recipient universities to conduct security research through five new Centers of Excellence.

Losses Stall Affordable-Housing Projects

Affordable housing is the latest victim of the credit crunch that is reverberating through financial markets.

Niche firms add polish to small-business videos

Millions of businesses have sat out the revolution because they would rather not make fools of themselves trying to make their own commercials.

The March/April 2008 issue of the Montana Arts Council’s newspaper "State of the Arts" is online and ready for viewing

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20 Things You Can Do In 20 Minutes to Be A More Successful CIO

There are things you can do in just 20 minutes that can have a meaningful and even a long term positive effect on your IT organization, your career, your technology knowledge, your management skills and your relationship with the business.

Montana is home to burgeoning art community. "The Craft Heritage Trails of North Central Montana" is your guide

This surge of creativity is a fitting legacy for legendary artist Charlie Russell, who lived and worked in the area.

5 Startups Demo at TECH cocktail Boulder

TECH cocktail Boulder enabled five local startups to showoff by demoing in an expo-style for the crowd.

How to save money running a startup, and your workers, into the ground

• Work in the dark–you’ll save on electricity, and employees gradually lose the ability to tell day from night, which means they can work longer hours

Companies benefit from appreciating employees

Employee appreciation shouldn’t come only once a year.

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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.

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As the hub of learning, creativity and innovation in Northwest Montana, Flathead Valley Community College is expanding

Montana Bioscience Cluster Initiative - Collaborative program design and execution and integrated programs fostering innovation, technology commercialization, entrepreneurship and sustainable small businesses

Bozeman is a rapidly growing city with a high quality of life in part due to the easy access to the outdoors, burgeoning tech industry, and cultural experiences it offers.