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"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
Nonprofit groups impact Montana’s economy - $2.77 billion in 2004 http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Come Home Montana
Developing Tech Jobs in Rural Communities
- Montana Career Opportunity - Business Outreach Specialist - Headwaters RC&D
The position requires a BA degree in business, or a related field or experience with small business development, economic development, financial planning, and management skills.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Email Systems Administrator - State of Montana
Salary $54,716 to $68,395 DOQ. Supports and maintains the State's Centralized Exchange Email System.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Yellowstone Airport Manager - Montana Dept. of Transportation
Montana Education Excellence
- Why Not Locate Your Next Plant in a Smaller Town?
As long as you can find enough workers, locating your business in a small town can dramatically lower your operating costs.
Education
- Can business be ethical? Montana State University and Wonderlust students find out
Business ethics is not a black or white situation, McCarty told a recent Wonderlust gathering. Ethics depends on whose shoes you re standing in.
2007 Montana Legislature
- Community colleges aim for more respect
The institutions, which serve more than half of US undergrads, are working to improve access and uphold academic standards.
- 2007 Education Quotient: Today’s Schools Are Shaping Tomorrow’s Work Force
Our 16th annual Education Quotient compares 2,800 school districts nationwide to provide you with a means to compare the type of manufacturing work force you’re likely to encounter in communities throughout the U.S.
Montana Business
- 2007 Montana Legislature contact information
For questions regarding status of bills or other legislative information or to leave a message for a legislator, call the Legislative Information Office
Montana Economic Development
- Three Billings-based companies - Mountain Mudd, Mountain Manufacturing and Seaside Properties purchased by Minnesota based CHS Inc.
CHS Inc., better known for petroleum and livestock feeds, is expanding into coffee.
Funding and Building your Business
- Consultant offers advice on how to market Helena
“What do you want to be known for globally?” he asked. “Once you decide that, you need to develop a wayfinding system to connect the dots.”
- Trade zone sought to lure businesses to Butte, Montana
“This has some really positive implications and is a good business tool for what we have going on in our industrial park,” Butte-Silver Bow Chief Executive Paul Babb said Wednesday.
Regional Economic Development
- Top Ten Marketing Podcasts
There’s lots of great information for entrepreneurs and small-business owners in these podcasts.
- Make sure all employees know their Web use can be monitored
Eliminate any expectation of privacy that your employees may have while using your technology resources. Let them know that nothing in any e-mail should be considered private, and that e-mail and the Web sites they visit could be monitored.
- Biggest IT Challenges for Entrepreneurs
Understanding the roadblocks ahead will help you better manage your technology needs.
Government Technology
- Californians moving in
Account for 35 percent of region's recent growth in population
- Philanthropy creates economic hub in region
Call it the "Seattle mystique," or the "compassion corridor," but philanthropy is creating a kind of economic hub in the region.
Idaho Business
- New York State Agencies Required to Broadcast Meetings on Internet
On January 1, 2007, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer signed Executive Order 3 which requires state agencies -- subject to open meetings law -- to broadcast meetings on the Internet beginning no later than July 1.
Washington State Business
- Idaho Gov. Otter’s big blunder. He might as well have slapped them in the face.
Our new governor, C.L. “Butch” Otter, ignored the recommendations of the Idaho Governor’s Council on Science and Technology, which totaled $50 million, and instead wants to give $15 million to boost research programs at the state’s universities.
- Boise Valley Initiative for Prosperity director outlines goals
Boise State Bronco football has the nation looking at Idaho’s largest city, said Paul Hiller, executive director of the Boise Valley Economic Partnership, and he intends to keep their attention.
- Boise economic development leader won’t rely on incentives
States are putting hundreds of millions of incentive dollars on the table to attract businesses – vehicle manufacturing plants, for example, Hiller said. “I don’t believe in buying projects like that,” he said. “And I know the Legislature doesn’t believe in that (incentive-heavy) philosophy.”
Other Economies
- Intel Capital exec, Scott Darling, heads to local VC firm
"The vast majority of the work I have done inside of Intel, including Intel Capital, has been starting new businesses. It is really core of what I have done,"
- $3 million pledge to energize biotech fund, governor says
The Life Sciences Discovery Fund, created by Gregoire and the Legislature in 2005, is aimed at funding research that will improve health, lead to new jobs and spur other forms of economic growth for the state.
Incubators and R&D
- Can Giving Google $100 Million Change One Small Town's Fortunes?
In exchange, the company that runs the world's largest search engine would build a hub in this foothills community for its massive international computer network and hire 210 people.
University TechTransfer
- Research Roundup at Montana State University (#267), Early bird catches Mercury, Cattle and creeks, Tiny bubbles, Wildlife collisions
Imagine a tiny soap bubble with miniature passengers clinging to it.
- Researchers at Montana State University Develop Protein Cage Helps Nanoparticles Target Tumors
Researchers at Montana State University have used an engineered form of ferritin, a cage-like iron storage protein, to both synthesize and deliver iron oxide nanoparticles to tumors. The investigators, led by Trevor Douglas, Ph.D., and Mark Young, Ph.D., reported their findings in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Non-Profit News
- The Route From Research to Start-Up
“We see it as transferring back to the public benefits of technology that in many cases has been developed with public money,” said Krisztina Holly, vice provost of U.S.C. who is leading a major expansion of its technology transfer program.
- U-M tries to streamline invention pipeline
One change is likely to increase compensation for inventors.
Energy
- Nonprofit groups impact Montana’s economy - $2.77 billion in 2004
On the employee side, nonprofits paid $1.09 billion in wages in the year ended last June, more than any other industry sector in the state except local government and retail, according to the Department of Labor and Industry.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Membership Coordinator - Montana Wilderness Association
Position responsible for coordination of all membership functions, including maintenance of database, retention and recruitment of members, and organization of annual convention.
Connectivity & Communications
- Homegrown power could ease energy crunch
New Jersey’s net-metering program was ranked No. 1 nationwide.
Community
- Skype founders unveil details of new Internet television project
Joost— pronounced "juiced" — may eventually try to move onto television sets, but it will initially focus on making it easier and more fun to watch TV on a computer.
- Five Ways Public Ownership Solves the U.S. Broadband Problem
The U.S. has dropped from first to 15th in the world for the percentage of residents with high-speed Internet access.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- State of the city: Mayor John Engen lauds Missoula's progress - Online audio of his speech available
Missoula is a vibrant place to live, work and raise a family. Mayor John Engen wants it to be such a place 100 years from now, too.
- Touch Screens for Many Fingers
Researchers and startups have far bigger plans for multi-touch screens than the novel interface on Apple's iPhone.
- Payment by fingerprint ready for checkout near you
Pay By Touch, a biometric authentication, payment and personalized marketing company based in San Francisco, is behind this vision of life sans wallet.
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