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| MATR Newsletter - Thu Jul 7, 2016 |
Every Day a Festival. Every Meal a Feast.
It just keeps getting better. Main Street Montana Conference, 7/13-14, Billings, Montana http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Montana Code Girls
Kalispell Chamber of Commerce
- MSU College of Engineering dean nationally recognized as advocate for women in engineering
The number of female undergraduate engineering students is also up, increasing from 432 in 2012 to 631 in 2015.
Montana Governor's Office of Economic Development
- Kalispell Chamber Hosts Senator Daines For Trade And Intellectual Property Roundtable, Spirit Of Enterprise Award, 7/18
Since 1904, the Kalispell Chamber of Commerce and Convention and Visitors Bureau has been a leading voice in strengthening our community and the business climate, with the goal of making Kalispell and the Flathead Valley an ideal location to live and work.
Montana Politics & Legislature
- It just keeps getting better. Main Street Montana Conference, 7/13-14, Billings, Montana
We just added the opportunity to tour two innovative Montana businesses before the conference gets going on Wednesday, July 13!
PrintingForLess
- I-181 Will Serve Hundreds of Thousands of Montanans
Because all Montanans are impacted by those who suffer, we strongly encourage all Montana voters to support I-181, the Montanans for Research and Cures Initiative, which would generate $200 million in funding for neurological research in Montana over the next decade.
Visit Montana - Montana Dept. of Tourism
- PrintingForLess Newsletter: Summertime and the printing is easy
To help you get the most from your marketing this summer, we're giving you some good ideas on how to refresh content for your website, using the printed material you already have.
Energy and Climate Change
- Ready to ride: Missoula to Lolo Trail emerging as tourism draw
Adventure Cycling has called the world's cycling enthusiasts back to Missoula to participate in this month's Montana Bicycle Celebration. The event celebrates Bikecentennial's 40th anniversary and the grand opening of the new Missoula to Lolo Trail.
Come Home Montana
- It's All About the Value of the Network: ComEd Gears Up for a Distributed Energy Boom
"The future is all about networks. I see our work being about more connectivity."
- Senator Heinrich to Introduce Energy Storage Tax Credit Bill Next Week
He's trying to build bipartisan support for a model based on the 30 percent solar tax credit.
Montana Business
- Montana Career Opportunity - Loan Specialist (Realty-Single Family Housing) Agriculture, Rural Housing Service - USDA - Kalispell
Talk about a wonderful opportunity!
- Montana Career Opportunity - The State SBDC (Small Business Development Center) Director - MT Dept. of Commerce
If you are interested in contributing to the growth and development of Montana's economy by providing management and technical assistance to start-up and existing businesses throughout Montana, this opportunity may be just what you are looking for.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Office Manager - Prospera
Enjoy supporting our fun, fast-paced team with a diverse range of responsibilities while making a rewarding impact in the community by helping people launch and expand their business ventures.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Head of Community and Communications - Hank Green
This job has a lot of moving parts and requires someone with a great sense of our values and goals who is an extremely effective communicator and understands how the internet works. You'll never do the same thing two days in a row, that's for sure.
Montana Economic Development
- Landmark Rule Opens Skies to Commercial Drones - Bigfork-based uAvionix has the solution for increased traffic
"I think that it's one of those moments parallel to sitting in a coffee shop in California in the early '90s wondering what all the Internet fuss is all about," Beard said. "Five years from now, a dozen drones will pass in front of you and it will feel normal."
Careers
- Idaho-based tech company MarCom, LLC with Butte office gets $75,000 from State of Montana development fund, promises 10 local jobs
Although MarCom is based in Idaho Falls, its chief financial officer and co-founder, Butte native Marc Murphy, said he wanted to locate the company's administrative office in his hometown.
Incubators and R&D
- Data Mining Reveals the Crucial Factors That Determine When People Make Blunders
Decision making is influenced by the complexity of the situation, the skill of the decision maker, and the time pressure. But one of these is much more important than the others, a new study reveals.
- 3 Tips for Integrating Meditation Into Your Schedule
Everyone needs to take time to relax and hit reset in their daily lives, especially busy entrepreneurs.
Other Economies
- Google's DeepMind to use AI in diagnosing eye disease
The goal is to teach a computer program to recognize the signs of two common types of eye disease, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration.
Washington State Business
- How One City Cut Its Red Tape for Entrepreneurs
South Bend, Indiana, has made itself friendlier to business.
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- Washington Debuts Scalable Job Match Website for Highly Mobile Workforce
The new WorkSourceWA platform supports collaboration between the technology platform, future employees, workforce stakeholders and recruitment services.
Montana Education Excellence
- What schools can learn from the unschooling movement
The approach could hold lessons and implementation strategies for all of us in education.
Community
- University of Montana to offer Master of Business Analytics starting this fall.
The estimated starting salary for employees with master's degrees in data-related fields hovers around $80,000.
Funding and Building your Business
- Amazing Place: Six Cities Using the New Recipe for Economic Development
This Smart Growth America report looks at how six cities are using smart growth and placemaking strategies to gain a competitive edge.
- The 3 Most Common Community Engagement Mistakes
It's great to focus on the positive and celebrate the best case studies, but sometimes it's useful to learn from our mistakes.
- Streetlights May Be Hurting Public Health
But by working to prevent one kind of pollution, cities have inadvertently exacerbated another: light pollution.
- The Growing Imperative for Age-Friendly Communities
Places that take the needs of an aging population seriously now will fare best over the long haul.
- FOUR New grant announcements
Government Technology
- 10 Sources of SMB Loans for Veteran Entrepreneurs and How to Apply
One in every 10 small businesses is veteran-owned today. Inspired by this phenomenal growth, Silicon Valley is taking a keen interest in these businesses.
- Strategies: Globalization is a small-business necessity
If America -- including American small businesses -- wants to survive in the 21st century, we must embrace globalization. But we, as a country, need to find ways to help small enterprises make the transition to a truly global marketplace, facing both more competition and more immigration.
- How to sell your small business - Resources in Montana to assist.
The market for business sales has improved, but getting the best price for your company will take some preparation. It's important to find the right advisers, organize your financial information and ensure that you are able to justify your asking price, experts say.
- Why every startup needs an Advisory Board and how to develop a good one
Even the best of us needs someone we trust to bounce ideas off, or challenge our perspective on a regular basis. That's the function of a good advisory board.
- The Biggest Mistake Young Entrepreneurs Are Making Today
I keep running into young people who have everything they need to launch a successful business but are blowing the opportunity by following the example of companies like Airbnb, Stripe, and Snapchat.
Non-Profit News
- Interactive kiosks to help tourists, residents in Bozeman
"Locals and visitors will look at this program very differently," said Ellie Staley, who works in the Downtown Bozeman Partnership. "It's really an opportunity for them to get a great cross section of who's walking the streets of Bozeman so that we can build on this and get it to be a great resource."
Transportation
- Missoula, Montana -based Biomimicry Institute announces winners of second food systems Challenge
The winning teams were chosen from a list of 86 submissions from 18 countries, with the projects assessed by 50 judges, including biologists, business leaders, venture capitalists and agricultural specialists.
- AniMeals donors pay bill to founder's other Missoula business
What donors weren't told they may find surprising: the debt they helped AniMeals settle was owed to Moltzen's for-profit company.
- Uber sets August launch date for Montana
The week-long rolling launch will include events in several Montana cities, a company spokesperson said.
- BMW says its fully autonomous car is coming in 2021 (+video)
The firms also hope to establish an open platform for the technology that could be made available to other firms and thus align the industry on a standards-based platform to quickly bring autonomous cars to market.
- Paris Opens the First Stretch of Its 28-Mile Bike Superhighway
In 2015, the city voted unanimously to spend €150 million ($164.5 million) on expanding and improving its biking infrastructure, including REVe (which translates to "dream" in French).
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