Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana

"We’re trying to get them to think about financial and career decisions," said French, a financial adviser for Northwestern Mutual. "It’s neat to see when kids learn something about business and entrepreneurship. A light goes on."

Today, everyone is an Enterprise of One.

So why is it that in one of the most advanced countries in the world, we’re still using the legal technology … of 1787? I mean, if you drove a car from 1787, it would be a horse!

A green card–to any foreign-born entrepreneur whose new business attracts at least $100,000 in venture capital or angel backing out of a total $250,000 in equity financing, while creating five new jobs within two years.

As part of our 2010 DECA project some Capital High students will be posting ads every other Sunday to highlight local entrepreneurs in the Helena area.

This book provides critical insight based on
cutting-edge analyses of how to frame, design, launch, and sustain
efforts in the area of entrepreneurship.

McKenna, who is a fourth grader, has been in the chicken-egg business for the last two years. She got started in her business when she “saw them at Big R and I thought I wanted them,” she said. “I had about 20 chickens when I started.”

There also needs to be a more concentrated effort to introduce entrepreneurship and basic economic principles at the primary and secondary levels.

The basic gist is that he will fund up to 20 kids under the age of 20 who apply for this grant. His hope, obviously, isn’t to ruin their lives, but instead to find the best minds thinking about big things early in life. This is where true disruption comes from, Thiel believes.

Women 2.0, a group that coaches would-be entrepreneurs and introduces them to many of the movers and shakers in Silicon Valley. Working primarily with women – though men participate, too – it’s been successful in creating more female high-tech leaders.