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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Dec 15, 2015 |
"Customers don't come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of your clients." Richard Branson - Wages for Montana millennials lowest in country http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Angel Capital Association Webinar With Bill Payne: Best Practice Series: Valuation Of Early Stage Companies, 12/16 http://www.matr.net/ev ... =5733
Visit Montana - Montana Dept. of Tourism
Come Home Montana
- Closer by the dozen in Bigfork, Montana at Averill's Flathead Lake Lodge
The lakes are amazing -- warm, calm and incredibly beautiful. We also loved the small town of Bigfork, which looks like something out of a Western movie. We were warmly greeted by the residents of this town of 4,000.
Montana Business
- Montana Career Opportunities - Architect, Data Provider Integration Coordinator, Engineer, Java Developer, Quality Assurance Analyst, Solutions Developer and more... - Zoot Enterprises
"Our clients don't hire us to do what's easy. They can do that themselves. They hire us to do the things that are hard. And sometimes, the things they believe may be impossible." -Chris Nelson, founder and CEO, Zoot Enterprises
Montana Economic Development
- A Match Made in Montana - Next Frontier is pleased to announce our $1.3 Million investment in Submittable.
Submittable is further validation that Montana is home to industry leading companies.
- A Rivertop runs through it; building a bio-business in Montana - #7 Hottest Small Company in Bioeconomy
Montana is a making a concerted effort to recruit (and keep) more women in STEM careers.
- Wages for Montana millennials lowest in country
Millennials are defined by the Pew Research Center as people born between 1981 and 1997.
- Bozeman medical college would compete with WWAMI, says chief doctor in Seattle
The osteopathic students would be in "direct competition" with WWAMI students, wrote Dr. Paul Ramsey, CEO of the UW School of Medicine in Seattle
Rural Communities
- Food Processing Center Survey for Ravalli County
The Ravalli County Economic Development Authority is studying the feasibility of a building a Food Processing Center in the Valley.
Government
- Speak Your Piece: The Big-City Guide to Small-Town Living
I wondered, what makes for a successful transition to the small-town life that I love so much. The following 10 rules I personally pulled out of a very authoritative hat.
Incubators and R&D
- Montana TechHire Initiative: Request for Proposals (RFP) for TechHire Workforce Development Pilot Projects
This grant program is designed to equip individuals with the skills they need through innovative approaches that can rapidly train workers for and connect them to well-paying, middle- and high-skilled, and high-growth jobs across a diversity of H-1B industries such as Information Technology (IT), healthcare, advanced manufacturing, financial services, and broadband.
- Governor says Billings area meeting pollution standards
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has asked federal environmental regulators to reverse a 2013 designation that areas around the city of Billings were out of compliance with air pollution standards.
Oregon Business
- Returning The Idaho National Engineering Laboratory To Nuclear Roots
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory Deputy Director Todd Allen tells how the lab will use all it's facilities to research future nuclear fuels.
Other Economies
- Oregon Leadership Summit: Political, business heavyweights to talk jobs, roads
In the past, governors and lawmakers have used the annual summit to preview priorities for the coming legislative session and rally support from business leaders.
Regional Economic Development
- Florida Starts Planning State's First 'Connected City'
The state sponsored initiative is meant to provide ultra-fast Internet to attract tech companies to settle in Pasco County, Fla., and pair it with modern public transportation and various types of housing.
Education
- One county's sales pitch: Move here and we'll cut the cost of your student loans
"If we're able to say, 'If you come to Montgomery County . . . we'll help you refinance your student loans and lower your cost of living,' that's a very powerful, very attractive incentive," said Montgomery County Council member Tom Hucker (D-Eastern County).
MAPS : Media Arts in the Public Schools
- Idaho, South Dakota universities to expedite degree programs
The memorandum of understanding would reduce the time it would take to earn a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in nuclear engineering by one year.
Montana Education Excellence
- Media Arts in the Public Schools Launches Christmas Gift Store
A MAPS Mom (Toba Winston) donated some rare, vintage, costume jewelry and our new ENTREPRENEUR class created and launched our Xmas gift store to sell it. And of course, all proceeds help MAPS to remain free-of-charge.
Community
- UM School of Business Administration Dean Larry Gianchetta, Treasured Teacher and Gifted Leader, Announces Retirement
In the course of his career, Larry worked wonders.
- Research, vital work continues at University of Montana despite budget woes
The research taking place at UM is creative, and in the demonstration, students called on the administration to offer innovation as well. "We want creative solutions," read one sign.
- McLean's move draws attention to Montana higher ed's problems
Why did the commissioner's office think it was necessary, in hiring McLean, to raise the position's salary 40 percent?
Funding and Building your Business
- Call to awesome: Hackathon MSO 2016 - Who wants to Hack?, Needs a date, Needs a location
What do we want to hack? Where shall we hack it? What is a hackathon?
- Missoula ranks No. 1 among fitness-friendly cities
"I think Missoula is super healthy. I think we care what we put inside our bodies, I think we care what we do to the exterior of our bodies, I think we really care what the environment looks like and, in that, we are just incredibly active as a community,"
Government Technology
- What Cinemagraphs Mean For the Future of Advertising -- And Your Facebook Photos
The once completely static profile photo now has the opportunity to be a unique portrayal of classic personality. It's simple to do, and it effectively bridges the gap between photos and video in social media.
Non-Profit News
- States (and in fact all organizations) Should Kill the Annual Report, Here's Why
Agencies should begin replacing annual reports with dynamic dashboards that provide real-time information on government programs.
- Congress is about to ban taxes on your Internet service, once and for all
But almost as important is what Congress is not banning with this legislation.
- Officials Talk Data, Performance Measures for Better Government
Good data can play a huge role in effective government, but unrecognized barriers often stall progress.
- How data classification will protect us Montanans
How can we, members of the public, verify that our sensitive data is being appropriately classified and secured?
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- How to Give Big to a Small Charity
"People make the mistake that the bigger your gift, the bigger your influence, but it is really about a relationship."
Transportation
- Robot surgery: Google's Verily to give doctors superhuman precision
Verily, the new name for Google Life Sciences, is forming a company with Johnson & Johnson called Verb Surgical to develop medical robotics.
- Sensors let elderly 'age in place' for twice as long
"The sensors help the nurse or the social worker focus on alerts to potential health problems. The alerts can also indicate potential depression, increasing confusion and/or other problems the person may be experiencing.
- Silicon Valley Leaders Including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman Commit $1 Billion to Create Artificial Intelligence Without Profit Motive
The organization, to be named OpenAI, will be established as a nonprofit, and will be based in San Francisco.
- Stanford team develops software to predict and prevent drone collisions
"UTM is meant to fulfill a lot of the functions of air traffic control, but it will be in the cloud and largely automated."
- Montana road conditions - Montana Department of Transportation Montana Road Report Map
Take a look before you go
- The new science of traffic engineering
All of the data pointed to a better theory: In urban places, obstacles and constrictions make streets safer, because they cause motor vehicle operators to drive more carefully.
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