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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Jun 7, 2011 |
"...why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." --J.K. Rowling, Harvard commencement address - "Has Success Eluded You Because You Eluded Failure?" http://matr.net/articl ... .html
To Live or Die in Rural America http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Montana Department of Commerce
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- Montana Department of Commerce Awards Grant to Aid Development of Wind Turbine Facility
"This grant supports the first step in a project that has the potential to bring hundreds of new, well-paying jobs to northcentral Montana," said Sarah Converse, executive director of Sweetgrass Development. "We are very impressed with the proposed development, and pleased that the project uses the robust wind resource we have in this region to help diversify our economy while protecting our quality of life -- goals vital to our mission and vision."
Workforce Development
- Teen teaches teachers
During her speech, Adora told teachers that long-term projects can help students learn. Picking a community problem and then proposing solutions is one way to do that.
Come Home Montana
- Industry Puts Heat on Schools to Teach Skills Employers Need
"We need to move aggressively to competency-based education" based on mastery of skills at the student's own pace, rather than on an accumulation of credit hours."
Developing Tech Jobs in Rural Communities
- Congressional Roll Call has already covered it and celebrities are speaking out in support of it, but we still need your support of this year's D.C.-based Montana Testicle Festival.
"Eating Rocky Mountain Oysters is almost as fun as actually harvesting them," Sarah Palin didn't really say in a statement.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Network Technician - Granite TCS
The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of hands-on IT experience working with desktops, notebooks, servers and networks.
- Bud Lilly: 'Dean' of Montana fly fishing and stalwart of conservation
Lilly estimates he hosted about 80 different executives during that time, and said 60 percent went on to do something in Montana, whether starting a business, buying a home or investing.
Leadership Montana
- New Report: Long Commutes Are Relationship Killers
We hate commuting. It correlates with an increased risk of obesity, divorce, neck pain, stress, worry, and sleeplessness. It makes us eat worse and exercise less. Yet, we keep on doing it.
Montana Business
- Power? Thanks, but I'd Rather Have Influence" Bing Gordon of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
What were some other important leadership lessons? A. One is, test yourself at extremes as early as possible.
Montana Economic Development
- Montana's Quadz™ - four-wheeled, electric motor assist pedal cycle
A four-wheeled pedal cycle with electric motor assist that's e Quadz™, it's cool!
- GlaxoSmithKline to mark 30th anniversary of Hamilton, Montana operation
Top executives from GlaxoSmithKline will be in Hamilton this week, as the company celebrates the 30th anniversary of its operations here in Montana.
- Mercury CSC: Montana is Ready for its Spotlight, Thank You "There's Nothing Here"
"There's Nothing Here" http://visitmt.com/ helped boost hotel occupancy rates and grew tourism by $424 million last year.
Regional Economic Development
- Request for Proposals - Montana Food and Agricultural Development Program
The Montana Legislature authorized $195,000 per year to fund four Food and Agricultural Development Centers to provide technical assistance to increase the capacity of Montana's farmers, ranchers and other Montana entrepreneurs to produce food and value-added agricultural products, including farm-derived renewable energy.
Careers
- If we want to remain a leading economy, we change on our own, or change will continue to be forced upon us.
We need a job-centric economic theory and job-centric political leadership to guide our plans and actions.
- Regions Hope Industry Clusters Will Attract Jobs
Clusters "are becoming a central framework for how the federal government is engaging," says Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Fernandez.
- To Live or Die in Rural America
Rural America faces four fundamental challenges.
Funding and Building your Business
- Finding Out if You're Underpaid and Taking Action
"If you don't ask, you don't get."
- Ten Ways To Get Ahead of the Pack at Your Startup
Assuming you are lucky enough to get hired, what can you do to survive, and even stand out above the rest in this environment?
Incubators and R&D
- Viral Marketing For Startups is Not Enough Today
More than just spending, you need to create an "experience" in this digital age which sets you apart from the banner ads, email blasts, and old-school websites out there today.
- Every company needs to frequently return to its entrepreneurial roots
Many people mistakenly think this trend is all about technology; it's not.
- Reinventing the Board Meeting
While we've reinvented how startups build their companies, startup investors are still having board meetings like it's the 19th century.
- Turn Your Suggestion Box into an Innovation Engine
"How can this idea be monetized?"
- Compensation for directors of startups
As a preliminary matter, Directors can fall into several categories, and compensation is most often tied to those categories.
- Entrepreneurs Need to Learn to Be Good at Sales
Don't hope that a miracle will happen and your products and services will sell themselves.
- Wanna Create A Great Product? Fail Early, Fail Fast, Fail Often
If you're not failing, you're not going to innovate.
- 7 Cringe-Worthy Business Planning Mistakes
Buried treasure.
Montana Education Excellence
- GrowLab Accelerator provides startups $25K in seed funding
GrowLab is now accepting applications for its fall 2011 program at http://www.growlab.ca from entrepreneurs globally.
- University Research - Are taxpayers getting their money's worth?
Schools with a focus on engineering, including MIT, often ended up near the bottom. That may have nothing to do with the productivity of MIT researchers, Litwin said, but rather, because there is less of a focus on publishing in engineering, or because much of the work is done for the military or corporations that may not want results made public.
- TechStars Seattle, on the Prowl for Talented Coders, Adopts HackStars Program
And for TechStars, the experiment became HackStars--a recruiting program that puts entrepreneurial techies into a talent pool to help the accelerator's fledgling companies tackle their projects, and maybe even land a new job.
University TechTransfer
- Butte's strategic education plan moves forward
The goal reads: "Butte Public Schools is the No. 1 educational institution of choice. We graduate accountable, responsible students with competence in areas to succeed in a global environment through flexible curriculum that supports diverse career choices and lifelong success."
Education
- Best Practices for Technology Transfer
Regardless of the motive for technology transfer, the key objective of the transfer is to run the manufacturing process at the receiving site with no or minimal changes from the original process developed at the sending site.
Community
- University looks to naps for better grades
For students, the benefits of increased productivity and concentration will translate to better academic performance, the presenters argued -- even though they acknowledge having no data to back that up.
- Takeashine: The First Crowdfunding Platform To Help Students Pay For College
The platform will allow students to showcase their talents using a variety of assets like a portfolio, resume, a photo of a sculpture they made or even a video of them performing a soliloquy from King Lear to encourage donors to support them and their goal of achieving a higher education.
Connectivity & Communications
- FIVE New Grant announcements
- The Grand Rapids LipDub (NEW WORLD RECORD)
The international sensation that Roger Ebert calls "The Greatest Music Video Ever Made."
Energy and Climate Change
- 5 Reasons Why E-Books Aren't There Yet
The e-book is fundamentally flawed. There are some aspects to print book culture that e-books can't replicate (at least not easily) -- yet.
VIRUS ALERTS
- Climate Change Impact: Underestimated?
Sea-level rise will produce ripple affects across the United States as people in coastal communities move elsewhere.
- E-Mail Fraud Hides Behind Friendly Face
What if the e-mail appears to come from a colleague down the hall? And all he asks is that you add some personal information to a company database?
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