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Highway 12 Ventures
Come Home Montana
- Highway 12 Ventures - Portfolio News | May 2010
This is the second installment of monthly portfolio news in blog format. Great progress in the portfolio during the month of May, click on the headlines to read the whole story.
Cleantech
- Tour reveals Montana's Flathead Valley history
The 29-page booklets, packed with photos, history and driving instructions, are available at various outlets in Kalispell, Somers and Bigfork. They take drivers on a counterclockwise route to a dozen historic sites, all but one of them south of U.S. Highway 2 in Kalispell.
- Montana Career Opportunities - IT Software Engineer II - Oracle Database Administrator - Montana State Fund
Montana State Fund is a progressive workers' compensation insurer that utilizes a multi-functional team structure to provide exceptional products and services to its customers.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Director of Operations and Development - Forward Montana/Forward MT Foundation
The position requires a highly organized individual with a broad and diverse skill set with the personality to take initiative and drive others' focus.
- Montana Career Opportunity - SmartGrid Engineer - Northwestern Energy
NorthWestern Energy has an immediate opening for an Engineer in Butte, MT in our Engineering and Planning group working on our Smart Grid project.
Leadership Montana
- My Journey from Microsoft to the Cleantech Industry
“I don’t know anything about it, but if there’s a way to apply software skills to societal goals in a way that can be valuable, count me in.” Then I learned about energy efficiency.
Regional Economic Development
- Why leaders shouldn't specialize - The CEO of Cisco Systems on the future of leadership.
Know What You Don’t Know
- Social media can open the door to better leadership
“How open do I need to be?”
Careers
- The Value of Movie Tax Incentives
States spend billions on incentives to lure film productions away from Hollywood. Some say it's gone too far.
- Rural Businesses Grow Faster Together - The Power of Clusters
Rural businesses grow bigger and faster when they are closer together.
- 20 Grassroots & Groundwork Conference Sessions Available Online
Seizing Opportunities to Reduce Poverty and Build Community Prosperity.
Funding and Building your Business
- Greasing the Inside Track to a Job
Your friends and business contacts may feel extra motivated to help you find work nowadays as businesses boost employee incentives for successful referrals.
Incubators and R&D
- How to Win Venture Capital
First, an entrepreneur must target the right venture capital investment fund to pitch.
- How Sequoia forced Tony Hsieh to sell Zappos
It makes for very sad reading. Hsieh starts by explaining that he never wanted to sell to Amazon:
- Marc Andreessen's 3 Criteria for Startup Success
Serial entrepreneur Marc Andreessen offers the Stanford audience a rare opportunity to pose open questions.
- Firms Invest Big in Career Sites
Companies are investing in improving their online career portals, making their sites easier to use, adding more detailed company and job information and incorporating more social media.
- Why Business Planning is Like Regular Exercise
Good business planning is like regular exercise, not like running a marathon all at once.
- 37 Startup Insights - "Rework"
Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service.
Developing an Angel Network in Montana
- University of Montana fire analysis center receives formal approval
The approval formally establishes the center to provide research, service, education, training, and technology and application development to help active, on-the-ground natural resource managers make more effective and safe fire and land management decisions.
Idaho Business
- Calling All Angel Investors
We need to nurture entrepreneurs a lot more.
Education
- Biomark, a Boise fish-tracking firm, wins national recognition
The company was cited for its employee ownership and its cross training, where people such as receptionists can also learn how to tag fish, said Dean Park, Biomark president.
Government
- For Innovation to Occur, Colleges Need a Big Push, Scholars Say
The structural incentives within higher education "seem to push against innovation," said Dominic J. Brewer, an associate dean and professor of urban leadership and education at the University of Southern California. "They seem to push toward mimicry."
- Mouse Squad kids repair computers and build life skills in high school.
Mouse Squad (as in computer mouse) endeavors to help fill one: the need for people to keep school computers and other technology running.
Connectivity & Communications
- Public Invited to Comment on Montana's Proposed State Energy Policy
The Energy and Telecommunications Interim Committee of the Montana Legislature is seeking public comment through July 7 on a proposed state energy policy.
Miscellaneous Ramblings
- New high-speed network to benefit researchers at University of Montana, elsewhere
"What people have in their home is one megabyte," he said. "This is 10,000 megabytes. It's 10,000 times faster."
- Everything You Need to Know About 4G Wireless
The first 4G handset, Sprint’s HTC Evo, hits U.S. retail stores Friday, making this a good time to answer your questions about the fast wireless technology behind the Evo.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Does the Internet Make You Smarter?
Every increase in freedom to create or consume media, from paperback books to YouTube, alarms people accustomed to the restrictions of the old system, convincing them that the new media will make young people stupid. This fear dates back to at least the invention of movable type.
The Creative and Cultural Economy
- Beam Me Up, Scotty! Scientists Teleport Info 10 Miles
Scotty won't beam anybody anywhere anytime soon, but a new report by Chinese scientists shows that it is possible to transmit information over long distances using quantum entanglement.
- Best part of waking up: Missoula, Montana band wins $25K grand prize in Folgers coffee jingle contest
Western Montana has a lot of great gourmet coffee roasters. But ask Ethan Thompson about his favorite coffee company and you'll get one word: Folgers.
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