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Montana Eyes Growth in Employee Stock Ownership Plans for Stability

With only 34 ESOPs in Montana, advocates like Eva Villasana highlight their potential to boost retirement security and reduce layoffs. Expanding these plans could strengthen local economies and empower workers across the state.

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The Startup World Cup Montana Regional – Come join the biggest entrepreneurial challenge in Montana’s history. – 10/21 – University of Montana

One startup from that room wins a $1 million investment prize. Why not you, o’ glorious Montana startup? You have to be in it to win it. Applications close September 25th

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Headwaters Tech Hub Summit 2026 Join Us in Missoula Sept 9-11, 2026

The Headwaters Tech Hub Summit 2026 brings together leaders, builders, and partners from across Montana and beyond to focus on what it takes to strengthen our tech ecosystem for the long term.

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DisruptHR Bozeman 2.0 – 9/23 – Bozeman, Montana

If you work with people, lead a team, build a business, drive innovation, or simply care about the future of work, this is your scene.

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Get Better at Work

A series on the habits, behaviors, and strategies that can help you stand out at work and build your career.

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Connor Blakley is taking on “Uncrustables” by Smuckers and winning with “Jams”. What product could you improve and build a company?

Last November, Jams entered Target stores, and six months later one flavor began outselling its Uncrustables counterpart. Jams are now stocked in half of NFL locker rooms, and when the new football season kicks off on September 9, Jams will debut as the NFL Players Association’s first official PB&J—a title Blakley spent a year quietly engineering.

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GFDA Top Ten (23!) for 9/6/26

23) We have career openings for two Business Development Officers, one focusing on growing and diversifying the region’s food, ag, and bio processing industries and one focused on Downtown Great Falls. Download our Career Opportunities. Please pass along to great candidates.

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Is Your Wealth Advisor Using AI to Give Her More Time to Work With You?

The growth of artificial intelligence has put the would-be dinosaurs of wealth management– who employ hundreds of thousands of financial advisors and are responsible for $330 plus trillion in assets–on notice. “The next gen cares about how wealth impacts their life and the way they spend their time,” she says. “I can very quickly put together something that is completely customized to that person, and I can do it at scale because of AI.”

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It can’t be good when plastic companies write the lesson plans

The plastics industry is offering schools curricula that cast plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda.

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As family farms decline and the climate heats up, farmers weigh what to do with their land

The best way to protect his farmland was to restrict future development on it by entering into what’s called a conservation easement. He still owns the property, but he sold the future development rights of his 131 acres to the Little Traverse Conservancy, a nonprofit that acquires and protects land. The organization holds those rights even if Boyer transfers land to his kids or decides to sell to another owner down the line.

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