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Speaking of Success – Consultant Gail Blanke talks about the pressures entrepreneurs face — and how they can overcome them

the pressures and pitfalls entrepreneurs face, how they can overcome them and what success means for a small-business owner.

Hamilton lab makes discovery behind flesh-eating syndrome

A group of Montana scientists at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton has figured out how the bug behind flesh-eating syndrome and other infectious ailments survives the attack of the body’s immune system. In a paper…

FDIC offers more evidence of rural plight

"You used to go into these rural communities that had natural resource-based economies, and they had very robust infrastructures, working together to improve the schools, and there was a lot of energy there.

"Now there’s just not that energy there anymore," he said. "They’re not as engaged."

Anglers spent $438 million in Idaho in 2003, survey says

"Sport fishing in the state is a tremendous economic engine,"

Lessons learned from the failed recruitment of Hydro Fitting to Twin Falls, ID

Companies being recruited to come to southern Idaho should know the difference between the agencies that are promising incentives and the organizations designed to market the region to employers, he said.

Companies should also be required to make a "good faith" commitment on the front side of the proposed deal, Wagner said. Likewise, economic development agencies and organizations need to avoid "premature assurance of funding" to recruited companies, he said.

Montana Natural History Center July 2004 Newsletter

What’s Happening Outside Wildflowers are in full bloom in the areas burned last summer. Watch for butterflies, dragonflies and bees making the most of these long summer days. Frogs and toads are busy hunting in…

Colorado metros set income pace for the U.S.

The past two decades have been very good to Boulder and Fort Collins, Colo.

Joel Kotkin argues that culture and tourism alone cannot not save cities.

"The rage among some officials to promote their cities as hip and cool misses the essential elements that make cities great. A city is not merely a construct of real estate projects built for essentially nomadic populations; it requires an engaged and committed citizenry with a long-term financial and familial stake in the metropolis. A successful city must be a home not only to edgy clubs, museums and restaurants but also factories, schools, companies and neighborhoods capable of regenerating themselves for the next generation.

Fire up your marketing by delegating

The best way to delegate technology commercialization marketing is to break the process down into its primary components

Fuel-cell maker finds distributor

The agreement will support the distribution of IdaTech’s fuel cell products by Renco into multiple Italian markets including backup power, hydrogen infrastructure development and combined heat and power.

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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.

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