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"How do we accomplish what most states and the federal government cannot? I like to say we run government like a ranch. In ranching — my old job — you either pinch pennies or go belly-up. We do the same in government. Perhaps Washington can try it." Gov. Brian Schweitzer http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Gallatin Valley Robotics Center Invites You To Open House @ THE BOTCAVE, 8/24, Bozeman, Montana http://matr.net/events ... =3759 --- Regional Economic Development Meeting, 8/25, Billings, Montana http://matr.net/events ... =3769
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- How to Create a Quote for Website Translation Services
"How much will it cost?"
PrintingForLess
- Event Success Stories - Have you held a successful Event or Raffle recently?
Every month, TicketPrinting.com is offering a $100 Amazon Gift Certificate to one lucky winner in our monthly Success Stories drawing.
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- SBA Announces Appointment of Montana Business Owner, Dan Rice of PrintingForLess to Regional Regulatory Fairness Board
Rice is the vice president of corporate affairs for PrintingForLess.Com http://www.printingforless.com , a printing firm in Livingston. He can be reached by email at [email protected] or by phone at 406-222-2689.
Visit Montana
- Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course at Stanford University
A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more than 58,000 students around the globe -- a class nearly four times the size of Stanford's entire student body.
Come Home Idaho
- In Montana, the Wind and the Wide Open Spaces
Stark and beautiful, it can be nonetheless a lonely or threatening landscape; storms appear in the sky miles away and you can watch them approach or sense them over your shoulder catching up to you.
Come Home Montana
- Wireless data company to hire 250 in Boise
Wireless Data Services (WDS) is looking for 250 or more applicants in Boise who want to utilize and further develop their customer service skills and wireless product knowledge.
Montana Business
- RNs & LPNs Needed for Montana's Rural Critical Access Hospitals
Live, work and play in the beautiful state of Montana!
Montana Economic Development
- Muzeview News: July/August 2011
How industry focused is your firm?
- Judge orders Bitterroot Resort sold for $23M to repay debts
"As a piece of land, it is a treasure in the area," Friends of Lolo Peak's Daphne Herling said Thursday of the 3,000-acre Maclay Ranch. "... Whatever happens with that piece of land, we believe the areas of Lolo Peak and Carlton Ridge should be permanently protected from any future development."
- New Website - Montana Silversmiths
There is a place in all of us called Montana.
Regional Economic Development
- Rescheduled: "Financing a High Impact Venture: Creating Jobs and Wealth for Montana"
- Lean manufacturing expert to present training in five Montana cities
Lean manufacturing expert Bill Waddell will lead training sessions in Billings, Bozeman, Helena, Missoula and Kalispell.
- Time for Montana to catch up on broadband access
High-speed Internet access is no longer a luxury for the urban elite; it's a necessity that all Americans deserve.
Careers
- Commerce, USDA release online mapping tools - Measuring the impact of community development: A conversation with Paul Mattessich of Wilder Research
- Economic development not a one-man job
A full economic development effort requires innovation at our universities and in our businesses, with the full complement of tools necessary to commercialize those innovations -- financing sources for all sizes of businesses, business and management expertise, and the necessary workforce.
Funding and Building your Business
- 8 Ways Starting a Business Helps Your Job Search
Here are my recommendations on how and why initiating a startup while looking for a job is the right thing to do:
Incubators and R&D
- Perfecting the Project Pitch
"An idea isn't well understood until it can be explained to someone else"
- Ten Tenets To Live By When Starting a Business
If you expect to succeed in the thrill-a-minute, roller coaster ride of a startup, let me assure you it takes more than a good idea, a rich uncle, and luck.
- How to Access Investors
Venture capitalist and entrepreneur Mark Suster shares insights on how startups can connect with investors.
- Driving Your Startup to Profitability is Job One
In the long run, everyone wants both profitability and growth, but the question is still which comes first.
Government
- INL planning to open new research and education facility in Idaho Falls
The laboratory performs work in each of DOE's strategic goal areas: energy, national security, science and environment. INL is the nation's leading center for nuclear energy research and development. Management and operation of the laboratory is the responsibility of BEA.
- From cows to plastic car parts - U of A research lab shows the way with unique method of recycling
Using steam and pressure, a U of A research lab is extracting protein material from waste animal carcasses that is eventually converted into a variety of plastics.
Connectivity & Communications
- Inspector General Reports Army Improperly Tested Body Armor Following Congresswoman Louise Slaughter Inquiry Regarding Concerns
The New York Times reported that 80 percent of Marines serving in Iraq who had been shot in the upper body had died because of inadequate body armor.
- Cutting Costs the Montana Way - By Gov. Brian Schweitzer
WITH the debt crisis and the weakening economy fresh on their minds, most Americans have probably concluded that government, as a rule, cannot manage money responsibly. But it can. Just look at Montana.
- A Race in Montana May Again Be Crucial to Senate Control
"Working together is what built this place when the homesteaders came here Working together is a Montana way of life, it's a Montana value and we need to take that back to Washington, D.C. Start working for proactive solutions instead of trying to find excuses to vote against stuff." Sen. Jon Tester
Energy and Climate Change
- Harnessing the Power of Social Media in Times of Crisis
About 20 percent of the emergency management community is involved in some form of social media.
- New Network Could Help Disaster Communications
Scientists at Georgia Tech College of Computing say they've developed a possible solution, dubbed LifeNet, a mobile Relevant Products/Services ad-hoc network Relevant Products/Services designed for use in highly transient conditions and requiring no infrastructure such as cell towers or traditional landlines.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Electric cars get a charge out of Portland street
Are they long-distance travelers pulling off of Interstate 5 for a quick fill-up, or professors going to work? When the car charges, do they stand around and wait, or do they stop by the coffee shop across the street?
- Websites offer tools for making an app without knowing code
Several websites have popped up offering tools to generate apps with drag-and-drop simplicity.
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