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Montana Governor's Office of Economic Development
Montana Politics & Legislature
- Bay Area Start-Ups Find Low-Cost Outposts in Arizona - Choose Montana Instead!
Choose Montana instead! Where inspiration starts early
Big Sky Code Academy
- Gianforte says Indian reservations hinder free markets
My advice to would-be entrepreneurs there is, you may not be able to start the business on the reservation, but maybe you can do it in Hardin, just off, so you have the protection of the Montana courts."
- Gianforte condemns refugee resettlement as Congolese family arrives in Missoula
Governors have no authority to control immigration. Decisions about who can enter the U.S. are made by federal officials.
- Evaluating Montana Supreme Court justice candidates
Three of the most important statewide elections this November are those to the Montana Supreme Court. Why?
The MDT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program
- 40 Key Computer Science Concepts Explained In Layman
It's like an ultra-fast-track computer science degree program for everyone, just to get you to understand the general concepts.
- Half of the Highest-Paying Jobs in America Now Require You to Know How to Code
Roughly half of the jobs in the top income quartile - defined as those paying $57,000 or more per year - are in occupations that commonly require applicants to have at least some computer coding knowledge or skill
Energy and Climate Change
- The MDT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program
The MDT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program encourages and supports the participation of companies owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals in transportation contracts.
Montana Business
- 40th Anniversary for The National Center for Appropriate Technology in Butte, Montana
Helping people by championing small-scale, local and sustainable solutions that reduce poverty, promote healthy communities, and protect natural resources.
- The Sky May Hold the Secret to Efficient Air Conditioning
The idea is to exploit a natural phenomenon called radiative cooling.
- English Village Becomes Climate Leader by Quietly Cleaning Up Its Own Patch
What makes Ashton Hayes unusual is its approach -- the residents have done it themselves, without prodding from government.
Montana Economic Development
- Industry sources question state's decision to award $7M tourism contract to Wisconsin agency
The department awarded the contract to Milwaukee agency Hoffman York at the beginning of August using a point system it says is objective to evaluate bidders.
- USA Today - Vote for Your Favorite Craft Specialty Spirits Distillery! Headframe Spirits of Butte, Montana
Headframe Spirits, the only distillery from Montana to be nominated, is in the top ten. Headframe's quick rise to the top is no surprise to its employees.
- SmartLam Weighing its Future in the Flathead Valley
Columbia Falls manufacturer considering other states to build world's largest cross-laminated timber development site
TEDx Events in Montana
- City of Missoula, Missoula Economic Partnership striving for greater communication, collaboration on economic growth
"Economic development has lots of different facets. One is policy creation by the council."
Careers
- Today's TED Talk - The next manufacturing revolution is here
Industrial systems thinker Olivier Scalabre details how a fourth manufacturing revolution will produce a macroeconomic shift and boost employment, productivity and growth.
Idaho Business
- How to negotiate salary in a job offer
Employers say they are willing to haggle, some purposefully offering lowball figures as the opening move of a negotiation, fastcompany.com noted.
- Bitterroot Valley program helps people find new careers
Help with choosing a career is available through a free program at Literacy Bitterroot in Hamilton.
Incubators and R&D
- Former Idaho broadband contractors sue state
ENA and CenturyLink are each seeking at least $18.5 million in damages and other costs, according to the lawsuits filed Friday. Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article96790092.html#storylink=cpy
- How a Boise hospital got five stars from Medicare
"What is your why?"
Oregon Economic Development
- NASA opens doors to the public, offers free access to research
NASA is using PMC to permanently preserve and provide easy public access to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from NASA-funded research.
- NASA to companies: Please tell us your wildest business ideas for space
"NASA is interested in what exciting, new ideas people have for using the ISS that could lead to space being just another place to go to work or school,"
Montana Education Excellence
- Portland Development Commission provides money, mentoring to help minority entrepreneurs succeed
As commission leaders reworked their strategic plan, they found widening economic gaps between white Portlanders and ethnic minorities.
Community
- UM Launches Third Wilderness Experience for Incoming Freshmen
The Wilderness Institute, housed within the College of Forestry and Conservation, offers integrated, interdisciplinary and experiential wilderness education to UM students and wilderness stewards around the globe.
Funding and Building your Business
- Missoula, Montana ready to welcome refugees - Mayor John Engen
In the big scheme, I'm fresh off the boat. As is most of America.
- Wanted: Outstanding Montanans
Nominees have to have been born, raised or lived for a significant time in Montana. Living people aren't eligible.
Non-Profit News
- Ski Movie Legend Warren Miller Bares His Soul in his award-winning autobiography, Freedom Found
He's known as the godfather of action-sports filmmaking. But what happened to him behind the camera is even more remarkable than what you saw on the big screen.
- 7 Startup Pitfalls Can Kill Your Business Growth
Early success is great, but it's only the beginning of your hard work.
- Amazon to experiment with part-time tech teams
The Seattle company will test using entire teams of engineers and tech staff who will all work 30 hours a week, thus side-stepping many of the problems faced by part-time workers in a full-time environment.
- The best question you can ask an employee
That is one of the most potent questions in management for a senior executive to put to an employee.
- How to Find Your Most Valuable Customers
Not all customers are of equal value, and businesses can do better by focusing on those who offer the most profitable future. To do so, companies first need to know who they are.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- FASB Updates Accounting Rules For Not-for-Profits
The new rules also make it easier for donors, creditors and other interested parties to see how a nonprofit's funds are being used.
Transportation
- World's largest vertical farm being built in New Jersey
A company is building what it says will be the largest vertical farm in the world in an old steel mill in Newark, New Jersey.
- 60 Minutes - Fintech is changing how you bank and making it much easier.
It's being called the financial technology, or fintech, revolution.
- The Google Self Driving Bike
Just amazing...
- Futuristic Simulation Finds Self-Driving "Taxibots" Will Eliminate 90% Of Cars, Open Acres Of Public Space
Ultimately, they estimate, 9 out of 10 cars would be completely unnecessary -- as would public transit.
- How Tesla Is Killing California's Electric Car Market
"It's a classic example of technology outpacing regulation."
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