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This is a must attend for any company in the Inland Northwest seeking venture funding.

Crabtree’s smooth investment pitch — more polished than some from those twice his age at the conference — won him converts.

"And the sales pitch is half the battle. It forces you to articulate it in the way the common public can understand it. Even if you’ve got the best business model or idea, if you can’t articulate it to the constituency of people you need, then what good is the idea?"

Most importantly, he said, the valley does not want to be exporting solutions as much as it wants to help find and nurture homegrown solutions.

Investors looking for the region’s hottest companies as well as entrepreneurs looking for insights into how to present to investor audiences should attend the Midwest Venture Summit on November 1, 2006

The 2006 Bend Venture Conference is proud to announce the finalists who will be presenting at this year’s event. Six companies from around the region have been chosen to showcase their business to a panel of angel investors.

"Our region has a history of innovation and creativity. We’re looking to rekindle that mentality, and tap our collective brainpower to uncover the next big entrepreneurial success story,"

The idea behind the Zino Society is to create camaraderie among people who love talking business and wine.

TechRanch, a Montana-based resource center for entrepreneurs, is hosting the Big Sky Venture Capital Conference. The conference is open to accredited angel investors, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs from presenting companies.

Many companies probably haven’t considered monitoring the status of environmental resources through sensor networks because these types of applications aren’t motivated by profit, he suggests. Many of the applications the students demonstrated might have otherwise slipped under the radar, he adds.