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When the Last Cowboy Hangs Up His Spurs, What Then?

Death of ranching on public lands will put the West up for grabs. BOISE, Idaho — The cowboy is riding reluctantly into the sunset. The culture wars and simple economics are catching up with the…

Boise’s ProClarity gets credit for growth-Firm’s revenues earn it a place on two national lists

Boise´s ProClarity Corp. has made it onto two national lists of the country´s fastest-growing companies. The software company was named to the Inc 500 ranking and the Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 list for surging…

Colorado bio firm lands $40 million investment

A Boulder-based developer of drugs for cancer patients landed $40 million in private funding Wednesday, one of the biggest venture capital investments in Colorado this year. Pharmion to use capital to develop cancer drugs By…

Entrepreneurs get sermon about urgency of sales

Bob Dutkowsky got some advice on selling from his former boss at EMC Corp., co-founder Rick Egan. "He said, ‘Selling is like shaving – if you don’t do it every day, pretty soon you start…

Salesman Rick Carr to succeed retiring Jobs Plus president in Coeur d’Alene

COEUR d’ALENE — A salesman has been chosen to succeed Bob Potter at Jobs Plus. Rick Carr has lived in CdA for a decade while working in corporate sales Becky Kramer Spokesman Review Staff writer…

Jabil plant closure may hurt local (Boise) economy

Loss of payroll, tax revenue will affect the valley Jabil´s Meridian Plant is slowly decreasing operations after announcing layoffs in September. Jabil Circuit´s decision to abandon its 2-year-old Meridian plant and cut its 500 workers…

Startups reverse course, try lower-tech approach

Entrepreneur Todd Woloson displays his new sparkling-juice product, Izze. The startup company is operated out of his office in downtown Boulder, and the drink is bottled in Minnesota. Todd Woloson once doled out cash to…

Creation Nation

Some of the greatest research-and-development powerhouses of our times (think Procter & Gamble) regularly harvest big ideas from innovators outside their own walls. A range of small companies — from invention labs and industrial-design firms…

Driven by Design

"Designers can facilitate strategic conversations better than anyone," says Buchanan, "because they have an ability to visualize issues and problems in a way that traditional business consultants can’t." Greta Garbo or Bob Costas? For Modo…

UM gets $1 million for asbestos research

University group to study poisonings in Libby The National Rural Bioethics Project at the University of Montana, the first project of its kind, just received $1 million in grant money for research on asbestos poisoning…

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