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| MATR Newsletter - Thu Aug 11, 2011 |
"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning." - Meister Eckhart
Financing A High-Impact Venture (in Montana) Workshop, 8/17, Butte, Montana http://matr.net/events ... =3678 --- Gov. Schweitzer Invites You: 7th Annual Montana Ambassador Business Open, 8/17-18, Anaconda, Montana http://matr.net/events ... =3741
Globalization Partners International
PrintingForLess
- Creating Culturally Customized Content for Website Translation
Cultural adaption involves perception, symbolism and behavior.
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- PrintingForLess.com - Tell Your Story, Get Exposure Got results from your print campaign? We'd love to hear about it!
We'd love to learn more about your marketing results. In fact, we are looking to highlight companies on our website that have achieved results using print from PFL.
Visit Montana
- Seven keys to an effective autism education program
With incidences of reported autism increasing exponentially, educators are struggling to accommodate the needs of this growing population of students. But some key steps, including individualized assessments and data tracking, can help schools create effective programs for students with autism, one expert says.
- Gov. Orders Free Pre-Kindergarten for All Eligable At-Risk Children
The plan should identify and remove barriers - including the waiver of fees that would prevent at-risk students from attending - and provide for ways to search for eligible at-risk children who are not enrolled.
Come Home Montana
- Montana's Home Town Festivals
Sheep running through town, western duel re-enactments, gritty rock-n-roll, bucking broncos and hay bales masquerading as Betty Boop, clearly, it's festival season in Montana. Grab a throwing spear, pen a cowpoke ballad, pack your vintage Victorian duds and you're as ready as you'll ever be to celebrate alongside the rest of Montana.
Developing Tech Jobs in Rural Communities
- Photographer finding inspiration in Montana
I've traveled all over the United States several times and seen lots of beautiful places, but I think Montana is the most beautiful place of all."
- Venture capitalist's adventures in Yellowstone
Arch Managing Director Keith Crandell is a part-time ranger at Yellowstone National Park
Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana
- Why America's Young And Restless Will Abandon Cities For Suburbs
Rather than place all their bets on attracting 20-somethings cities must focus on why early middle-age couples are leaving.
Montana Biotech
- Your City as a Platform for Entrepreneurship
There is right now, today, a tremendous opportunity for cities across the US and around the world to effectively recruit and retain the young, hungry, visionary and highly productive talent that impact and accelerate cities.
Montana BusinessMontana Economic Development
- Montana Timber Products Introduces Don Bodemann as President
"I've been working in different aspects of the lumber industry most of my life. It's refreshing to assume a leadership role with a company that has the vision, work ethic, and commitment toward doing business the old fashion way. I'm excited to use the strengths I've acquired through my years of growing businesses in this industry," said Don Bodemann, President of Montana Timber Products.
- MERCURYcsc is 16th Best Place to Work in US - Outside Magazine Places Bozeman Agency on Annual List
Outside's "Best Places to Work" issue highlights employers that are setting a new standard for healthy work-life balance.
- EverLog™ Systems Newsletter
EverLog™ products are made of concrete, so there is no need to worry about the logs burning, rotting, decaying, shifting, settling, twisting, or any of the other problems commonly associated with wood log construction.
University of Montana & Montana State University Tech Transfer
- U.S. Treasury Awards MCDC $1.5 Million to Lend Out to Small Businesses
MCDC looks forward to putting the new CDFI funds to work for additional business owners across the state, helping them to create jobs and build economic vibrancy within their communities.
- SBA Approves Montana Non-Profit to Start Making Small Business Loans
Montana Community Development Corporation http://www.mtcdc.org/ can immediately start accepting loan applications from small business borrowers
Careers
- The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Announces Website to Facilitate Academic/Industry Partnerships
"The Global Technology Portal will be a one-stop shop for corporations to find university technologies available for licensing."
Funding and Building your Business
- 7 ways to get an industry leader you don't know to mentor you
No matter how smart you are - and how good your idea is - it's always easier when you have someone who has been through it before (in some capacity).
Montana Education Excellence
- 6 Companies With Awesome Employee Perks
The key to great perks is to make them exciting and keep them on-brand.
- 7 Ways To Promote Your Business Online For Free
Here are seven ways to promote your business online that won't cost you a dime:
- The Third Part of Your Business Plan: How You'll Fund Your Idea
Break a business plan into bite-sized pieces to save time, and focus on what matters most for you right now.
- Eight Ways to be Your Own Worst Enemy for Funding
Fundraising is indeed brutally tough at all stages, and the seed funding is the hardest to find. The simple answer is that if you need funding, do your homework early and completely.
- Raising Money On AngelList: 21 Tips From Two Active Angels
Not a lot has been written for startups on how to best use the service. Here's our take in small, bite-sized pieces.
- You Built a Great Startup, But Can You Scale It?
For successful scaling of the business, there has to be a transition to "executive" mode in the more traditional business sense.
Regional Business
- Montana Teachers in Hard-to-Fill Positions Benefit from Student Loan Repayment Program
Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau announced today that Montana is providing student loan repayment help to 141 teachers as an incentive to recruit teachers in needed fields to rural areas.
- Montana's Early Education Best Beginnings STARS to Quality Program off to a great start
The STARS to Quality Program is a quality rating improvement system and launched a field test earlier this year with approximately 100 child care programs participating statewide.
MAPS : Media Arts in the Public Schools
- Small, Local Businesses Speed Income Growth - Density Brings in More Tax Income Than Big Box
Counties with more small, locally-owned businesses have faster growing incomes than those places with big box stores and large firms owned by those outside the community. Here is a picture of the main street in Red Lodge, Montana.
Other Economies
- Find Your Voice - Join Us This Fall - Media Arts in the Public Schools
MAPS is open for fall 2011 enrollees.
Community
- Nebraska internship program launches website
Businesses and nonprofits across Nebraska are signing up with a new state effort to get college students working, and then sticking around after graduation.
Energy and Climate Change
- Software Helps Cities See the Future
IBM is betting that software can give cities a better look into their future.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Ford and SunPower announce deal to bundle electric cars with rooftop solar power
The "Drive Green for Green Energy Life" program is designed to provide the cars' owners the opportunity to fuel their vehicles with clean energy and have a carbon-free driving experience.
- Idaho Power to build pilot solar plant
Idaho Power Co. plans to build a pilot solar panel plant so it can gain expertise in a field that could one day become a significant part of its power generating operations, an official says.
- Lost in transmission - Montana's wind industry is getting blown away
Montana's wind energy production ballooned from about one megawatt in 2005 to more than 400 megawatts today. Now the industry finds itself unable to develop much more, largely due to the lack of transmission lines to get the power to energy-hungry markets.
- 'Amazing' new gene therapy destroys cancer
Scientists are reporting the first clear success with gene therapy to treat leukemia, turning the patients' own blood cells into assassins that hunt down and wipe out their cancer.
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