Funding and Building your Business

Going it alone? Help is available for Entrepreneurs

No one seems to work harder, put in longer hours, get more mentally fatigued and question more often whether it is all worth the effort than the entrepreneur. By Brent Strong Brigham Young University The…

The Keys to Team-Building

Poor team players? Here’s how to get employees to play well with others. Let’s start by belaboring the obvious: Collaboration is good. Authorities as diverse as Benjamin Franklin ("If we don’t hang together, we’ll all…

Taming The Health-Care Monster

How’s this for pointing out the obvious? Health-care costs are out of control. Just ask any company owner who provides employees with health insurance, and you’ll hear a tale of woe. By CHRISTOPHER CAGGIANO Inc…

Dot-com’s success is in a class by itself (What’s your idea?)

SITE FINDS SUCCESS BY LOCATING FRIENDS FROM HIGH SCHOOL RENTON, Wash. – A small Seattle-area company has seized on a new formula for Internet success — nostalgia. By Kristi Heim Mercury News Seattle Bureau Whatever…

Trickle-Up Leadership

"If people are too intimidated or too reluctant to help their leaders lead, their leaders will fail," says Michael Useem, the author of a new book about how you can take control — even when…

Beating the Odds-Who says women can’t raise venture capital?

Not these three entrepreneurs, who pitched their businesses and walked away with millions of dollars. Fortune Small Business By Bridget McCrea Patricia McPeak knew that the chances of finding venture capital for her two-year-old nutraceutical…

Boise Venture forum set for Oct. 2 and 3-(Which Montana companies are presenting at this important event?-Russ)

The Boise Metro Economic Development Council´s venture capital committee is seeking applications from companies for the Intermountain Venture Forum. The forum, set for Oct.2 and 3 at the Boise Centre on The Grove, helps match…

Is Your Marketing ‘Solution’ Your Biggest ‘Problem?’

Have you had current or potential customers tune out on you while you’re speaking to them? You’re giving them this outstanding description of your process and capability and its going bing, bong, kazoom over their…

Involve your people in decisions or risk failure, says author

Whether you’re a middle manager or a chief executive officer, the path toward making better decisions usually starts with one word. Ask. Seek the opinions and advice of the rank-and-filers directly involved in a project,…

Entrepreneur of the Month-from The Center for Rural Entrepreneurship-A Ride on the Funshine Express

One minute she’s editing a preschool lesson on animal ABC’s. The next she’s reading the Wall Street Journal. Beth Strube’s business serves small children and their caretakers, but running a business grossing $1 million in…

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