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| MATR Newsletter - Tue May 15, 2012 |
“A business leader today should ask not what analysts can provide, but rather ask the strategic questions that analysts should strive to answer.” John F. Kennedy http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
New Engines of Economic Growth - Five Roles for Arts, Culture and Design http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Inteneo Systems
Come Home Montana
- Leaders should concern themselves with good analytics
Why leaders must proactively engage in analytics
Hellgate Venture Network
- Montana Career Opportunity - Database Administrator - First Interstate Bank
A key focus for database resources will be the data warehouse/operational data store project.
- Montana's public lands help drive job growth, report says - "You should be here starting your company and living your dream"
Montana has shown that it offers good access to competitive markets where people find they can work at a high level while enjoying other assets, like lower crime and less traffic. "By protecting public lands and multi-use areas we have shown that through preservation we are actually building the economy."
- Montana Career Opportunity - Online Marketing Professional - PrintingForLess.com
We are looking for an online marketer to drive traffic through paid search, SEO, social media, and strategic partnerships.
Montana Business
- Hellgate Venture Network - Elke Govertsen, Mamalode, 5/31, Missoula, Montana
We're excited to have Elke Govertsen of Mamalode speak at our next meeting on May 31. Elke will talk about "How to make your business appear bigger than it really is!".
Montana Economic Development
- Instant Insight: Why True Ventures Invested in TerraEchos
TerraEchos http://www.terraechos.com/ has harnessed the power of time and the insights of big data to create the world's leading analytics solution for time-critical threat detection.
Business Plan Forums
- Senator Baucus Announces Eastern Montana Workforce Development Initiative
"This is truly a Montana solution for Montana jobs - there's no reason why energy companies and related industries should not be hiring workers trained and educated right here in the state. This initiative sends the message far and wide that Montana is proactively working to rewrite the cycle of boom and bust," said Baucus.
Other Economies
- Seattle Angel Conference Names Six Finalists
With just a few weeks left until its big demo day, organizers of the Seattle Angel Conference are announcing the finalists competing for an investment of about $100,000.
Regional Economic Development
- Many roads to innovation at Big Omaha
"Everyone thinks about this light at the end of the tunnel, and really it's only about the tunnel. If you don't love what you do and if you don't love going to work and if you're not proud of the work you're doing every day, then get the hell out of there."
- Leaders Gather to Help California Economy
Business executives generally are too busy running complex enterprises to spend time arguing without the prospect of results.
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- 1 in 3 autistic young adults lack jobs, education
With roughly half a million autistic kids reaching adulthood in the next decade, experts say it's an issue policymakers urgently need to address.
- New Engines of Economic Growth - Five Roles for Arts, Culture and Design
More and more governors are including state arts agencies in this all-hands-ondeck approach, putting in place policies and programs to use arts, culture, and design as a means to enhance economic growth.
Education
- Improving Public Financing for Early Learning Programs
"Increased public investment in early learning is a pro-growth strategy not inconsistent with greater fiscal restraint." "Improving Public Financing for Early Learning Programs," National Institute for Early Education Research
- Six great special-education resources for parents and teachers
These six websites provide a wealth of information, including vetted technology tools that can help special-needs students
- STEMinist - Voices of women in science, tech, engineering and math
Why we need to keep talking about women in tech
- Palo Alto School's Fab Lab Teaches Students to Create and Build
Distance learning, YouTube, the iPad -- new technology is helping transform education in many ways. But the Bourn Lab, a fabrication lab built especially for middle- and high-schoolers, aims to get students to create tangible things.
Montana Education Excellence
- College of Idaho reinstates football program
The College of Idaho will make sure that our football scholar-athletes enhance the close sense of community that distinguishes our campus."
Funding and Building your Business
- Preparing Montana's students for tomorrow's opportunities
The imperative to ensure an educated workforce for Montana is why 27 communities have launched their own locally designed Graduation Matters initiatives.
Energy and Climate Change
- Small Business Administration Bulletin - Tourist Season | Deadline Extended for Video Contest | "Old School" Marketing
While growth in the travel and tourism business is still recovering, early warm temperatures and optimism over the economy's future could make 2012 a good year for the U.S. tourist industry and the small businesses that support it.
- 5 'IP' Mistakes Start-ups Should Avoid
Perhaps the single greatest source of IP anxiety stems from the fact that engineers and executives tend to build on what they know best when starting a new venture.
- Crowdfunding raises $10 Million for Pebble Smartwatch on Kickstarter
The project, which is the most-financed project of Kickstarter in its history, attracted 85,000 buyers and $10.1 million.
- 10 Tips on the Value of Collaboration in Startups
Every entrepreneur should heed the following lessons on collaboration derived from the authors work on the culture, process and technology of collaboration in hundreds of companies.
- Smart Entrepreneurs Plan Multiple Rollout Iterations
"launching teaches you what you should have been building"
- Getting Customers to Pay More
Customers will buy what you're selling if they think the purchase is right for them.
- Successful Startups Often Come With a High Price
Before you start, you should think about what the impact might be on your psyche, and how to neutralize these challenges in your own plan.
- Training is key to worker retention, company competitiveness
In looking for greener grass, a good bet is that workers will look not only for better paychecks, but for companies where they can grow their individual talents.
- Hiring Hustle: 5 Tips for Building a Killer Startup Team
Recruiters aren't your only option for hiring. There are lots of ways to hustle your hiring on the cheap -- here are five tips.
- What's Wrong With the Lean Start-up
It sounds like straightforward enough advice to build a better business, but the approach has serious flaws.
- Google's Penguin Update Hardest on Small Business
"Penguin has been primarily focused on discouraging what the industry calls link spam."
- Can startups afford to be socially responsible?
Increasingly, tech startups and investors are supporting business models that make companies accountable to not just their shareholders, but also their customers, workforce, environment and greater community.
- Test Your Business Model Against These 10 Elements
A business model consists of at least the first seven of the following ten basic elements:
- 7 Reasons for Entrepreneurs to 'First Know Thyself'
Your skills, talent, knowledge, personality, and strengths are your best assets as an entrepreneur.
- Marc Andreessen's Advice for Entrepreneurs
The answer lies in the focus on the product, not on sales and marketing.
Government Technology
- Republicans Order Navy to Quit Buying Biofuels
If the measure becomes law, it would make it all-but-inconceivable for the Pentagon to buy renewable fuels.
Non-Profit News
- Kansas Business Startups Get Help Online - Kansas Business Center
In addition to pooling resources into a single location, Kansas Business Center provides assistance to anyone who may have questions about the process and requirements.
Transportation
- Habitat for Humanity Tries Big-Scale Approach to Housing in Oregon
Other Habitat branches have also pivoted in the recession, trying different angles in a dark time.
- Frontier flights take off today in Great Falls, Montana
Even news that Frontier soon will be entering the market has spurred the existing airlines serving Great Falls, especially Delta and United, to lower their fares sizably to key markets in the Midwest and West, said Odyssey Tour and Travel owner-operator Carol Lindseth.
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