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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Apr 29, 2008 |
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." -- Winston Churchill
If you weren't able to attend the very moving and inspirational speech by Dr. Jane Goodall last night http://matr.net/articl ... .html , I encourage you to take a look at her "Roots and Shoots" initiative http://www.rootsandsho ... .org/. If education is key to a successful economy, focusing the innovation of youth on projects supported by this organization is especially important to Montana and other rural states.
Idaho National Laboratory
Montana Community Finance Corporation
- Idaho National Laboratory Expert Touts Wind Energy, 4/30, Great Falls, Montana
Northcentral Montanans in eight additional communities can watch the presentation via interactive television.
MSU Leadership Institute
- Montana Community Finance Corporation elects board and officers
Montana Community Finance Corporation is a Certified Development Corporation that originates and services loans for the SBA 504 Loan Program.
Come Home Montana
- Jane Goodall offers reasons for hope for imperiled planet to capacity audience at MSU
Human beings are poisoning the planet and threatening animals with extinction, famed scientist Jane Goodall told a large Bozeman audience Monday, but there is reason to hope we are smart enough and compassionate enough to turn things around. “We haven’t inherited this world from our parents - we’ve borrowed it from our children, We’ve been stealing, stealing, stealing.”
Developing Tech Jobs in Rural Communities
- Montana Career Opportunity - Post Doctorate Researcher - Montana Tech
The Department of Biological Sciences at Montana Tech is looking for a recent Ph.D. to assist in deer mouse/hantavirus research.
Montana Business
- Together Alone: Wired for a Long-Distance Relationship
Technology makes it possible to run a business from practically anywhere on the planet. But what if your business partner lives in a different city or a different time zone? How do long-distance partners make it work?
Montana Economic Development
- Wanted: Engineers in Montana
Montana engineering firms say it’s becoming more difficult to fill management-level positions because of a shortage of trained employees.
Regional Economic Development
- SBA announces Montana award winners. Awards banquet May 1 in Billings
Small business owners and advocates from across the state will be honored in various categories for their achievements and contributions to Montana's economy.
- “Subdivide And Conquer - A Modern Western”, 5/3, Hamilton, Montana
“Subdivide and Conquer” looks at alternatives that maintain our sense of community, protect the environment and retain open spaces and agricultural areas in an attempt to answer the question, ‘Can you grow and not sprawl?’
- Eight (8) new 'community-friendly' grant announcements
- Great Falls Development Authority to form wind coalition
he coalition will bring together wind developers, transmission line developers, community leaders, property owners, educators and public officials throughout the northcentral Montana region.
Careers
- Clusters and Competitiveness: A New Federal Role for Stimulating Regional Economies
Regional industry clusters—geographic concentrations of interconnected firms and supporting organizations—represent a potent source of productivity at a moment of national vulnerability to global economic competition.
Funding and Building your Business
- Older workers looking more glamorous to recruiters
Older Americans can check job opportunities and apply online at no cost through the AARP Web site, regardless of whether they're one of the group's 40 million members.
- High-schoolers: Internships not just for college kids
While some internships for high-school students mainly take place during the summer, the best time is during the school year.
Incubators and R&D
- “The 25 Most Innovative Companies: Smart Ideas for Tough Times,”
Smart ideas for tough times: The 50 companies that make up our annual ranking nurture cultures that value creative people in good times and bad
- Cookie maker's blog revived her flagging sales
"I'm like, OK, this is a last-ditch effort,"
- Ask the VC: How do startups find early hires?
I find it fascinating (and awesome) that you are asking your question backwards. Most of the time the question people in your position ask is "how do I find a job in a startup?" Kudos on going one level deeper!
- Launch Silicon Valley 2008 will be held on June 10, 2008, at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, CA.
This conference is a very inexpensive way to get your startup in front of a highly-qualified audience of venture capitalists and journalists.
Montana Education Excellence
- Light may quicken computer
"In this study, we've demonstrated the first step toward making circuits that use terahertz radiation and ultimately might work at terahertz speeds," or a thousand times faster than today's gigahertz-speed computers.
- Montana carbon sequestration study receives state funding
Carbon sequestration is the process of capturing carbon dioxide from point sources, such as a power plant, and storing it permanently in deep underground geological formations.
Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
- The University of Montana might suspend students for sweatshop protest
“My main fear with this recent development is that whether or not students end up being suspended tomorrow or being put on probation for a year, it's a sign the university is trying to suppress us from protesting next year,” she said. “Here we are all taught to be passionate about something, how to be effective in making change happen, and it just so happens we can't make change on our own campus and that it is our own campus that is being suppressive.”
Utah Economic Development
- Not your father's small business research grant program - The "NEW" SBIR Program
There may be fewer SBIR and STTR awards as a result of a bill passed last week by the U.S. House of Representatives, but the awards definitely will be larger. The bill, which now moves to the Senate, would triple the size of Phase I and Phase II awards to $300,000 and $2.2 million, respectively, and allow technology start-up companies to enter the program at either Phase I or Phase II.
Education
- Angel investors fund many new Utah firms - Utah Angels
If you have a company that has a bright future, then apply to the Utah Angels or another similar investment group. You'll find these groups can provide insight, inspiration and much-needed capital as you launch your entrepreneurial venture.
Government
- New program helps E. Idaho students excel
"They had it inside them all along," she said. "They just needed time."
- 4 Yellowstone grants directed at science, kids
"These are great projects that help get more local kids in the park and improve collaboration between the Park Service and scientists."
Connectivity & Communications
- Timber!
Apparently some businesses are more deserving of special treatment than others.
Energy
- U.S. Broadband Penetration Up 300% Since 2002
Approximately 49% of American adults now have a high-speed internet connection in their households, up from just 12% in 2002.
- Will we butt up against the Web's limitations?
America's reputation as a technology leader will be damaged if it continues to fall behind in deploying fiber-to-the-home broadband service.
Government Technology
- Home Brew for the Car, Not the Beer Cup
WHAT if you could make fuel for your car in your backyard for less than you pay at the pump? Would you?
- Start-up: Affordable solar power possible in a year. SUNRGI
Executives of the year-old company say they'll start producing solar panels by mid-2009 that will generate electricity for about 7 cents a kilowatt hour, including installation.
The Creative and Cultural Economy
- New Jobs Web Site Helps Public Sector Agencies Fill Technology Positions
City and county governments can use PublicTechJobs.com to post career opportunities and view resumes.
VIRUS ALERTS
- Butte, Montana to host folk festival July 11-13
There is no charge for admission to the festival, which features continuous performances, participatory dancing, children's activities, ethnic foods and craft exhibits.
- Department of Homeland Security website hacked!
Infected by massive attack sweeping the net
- Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked
I would strongly urge people to steer clear of those sites: I mention them here so that Web site owners can more easily search the HTML code in their pages for these domains.
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