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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Sep 25, 2012 |
“The story of Montana is unbridled, beautiful lands and the kind of taming of these lands, using those resources that the land has given the people who live there, yet allowing a certain kind of freedom. “People have an amazing respect for their environment and a love for the outdoors — fishing, hunting ranching — and a gratitude for what the environment has given them.” http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
University Of Montana Entrepreneurship Club, 9/25, Missoula, Montana http://www.matr.net/ev ... =4291 --- Venture Capital In The Rockies, 9/26-28, Big Sky Resort In Montana http://www.matr.net/ev ... =4173 --- Hellgate Venture Network - Kevin O'Reilly, Orbital Shift PLUS View A Potential Missoula Incubator Site!, 9/27, Missoula http://www.matr.net/ev ... =4278 --- Examining Workforce Needs In Missoula, 10/2 http://www.matr.net/ev ... =4293
Inteneo Systems
Northwestern Energy
- How to Stop Hospitals From Killing Us - (Hint - It starts with DATA!)
Every hospital should have an online informational "dashboard" that includes its rates for infection, readmission (what we call "bounce back"), surgical complications and "never event" errors (mistakes that should never occur, like leaving a surgical sponge inside a patient).
- Feds' top entrepreneur shaking data from government's file cabinets
"Data by itself is useless," he said. "I cannot feed my baby daughter data. It's only useful if you apply it to create public benefit."
PrintingForLess
- Northwestern Energy In The News
A daily publication featuring excerpts of stories about Northwestern Energy and other topics of interest.
Visit Montana - Montana Dept. of Tourism
- Employment Opportunities - Looking for a high tech job in Montana?
Located in Montana's majestic Paradise Valley near the Yellowstone river in Livingston, we've been called "America's Print Shop."
- Best Business Card Ideas
Getting your information out there is crucial to growing your business. Having a unique business card can help set you apart.
- Printingforless.com September Newsletter: Becoming More Productive and New Die Cut Business Cards
Some days, we just need to give ourselves a proverbial smack in the head.
Blackfoot Telecommunications Group
- Elk showdown: Hundreds of huge elk gather at Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge during the rut
During the rut, hundreds of the state's most beloved big-game animal regularly gather at the Slippery Ann Elk Viewing Area at the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, where hunting is off-limits.
Montana Manufacturing Extension Center
- Project Management Institute - Montana Chapter - Project Risk Assessment, 10/09, Missoula, MT
Presentation and group discussion with Greg Gould of Risk and Rewards Management Group on project risk assessment and management. This is a meeting of the PMI Montana Chapter - Western Montana Branch and anyone is welcome.
Come Home Montana
- Manufacturing Renaissance? Exports, Reshoring Could Bring 5M Jobs to U.S.
Re-shoring is indeed real, and the reasons are not the ones that would immediately come to mind.
Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana
- Montana Career Opportunity - Web / Interactive Developer - Partners Creative
We look for at least three years of programming experience including skills in HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
- Montana Career Opportunity - President & CEO - St. Peter's Hospital
The President and CEO of St. Peter's Hospital will be responsible for providing visionary and strategic leadership to the organization in order to achieve goals and objectives consistent with its mission and values.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Director of Accounting & Fiscal Operations College of Forestry & Conservation - University of Montana
The Director of Accounting and Fiscal Operations for the CFC oversees accounting and financial processes and all funds allocated for the CFC and its departmental units.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Director of the Rural Institute - University of Montana
The Director will lead the Center in the fullfullment of its mission; to enhance the independence, productivity, integration, and inclusion of individuals and their families, and to improve the quality of life for people with severe disabilities, especially those individuals living in Montana and other rural areas of the country.
- Montana Career Opportunity - University of Montana Legal Counsel - Montana University System
The work of this campus counsel is dedicated primarily to the University of Montana-Missoula and its affiliated campuses.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Vice President for Integrated Communications - University of Montana
This person provides leadership for University marketing, web content, licensing and internal campus communications, and oversees University Relations, the Broadcast Media Center, and Printing and Graphic Services.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Vice President for Research and Creative Scholarship - University of Montana
The University's research program has grown in the last 20 years: external funding for research has increased from approximately $6 million to approximately $60 million.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Executive Director - Mountain Home Montana, Inc.
Mountain Home Montana provides a safe, loving home where young mothers can discover their strengths and their children can experience the joys of childhood.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Technical Service Representative - Printing For Less
Manage and grow PFL's customer base through consultative sales and technical file processing.
Montana Business
- University Of Montana Entrepreneurship Club, 9/25, Missoula, Montana
All are invited to attend and participate!
Montana Economic Development
- Brothers create limited-edition map of UM campus - Xplorer Maps
The locally based map company, founded by brothers Greg and Chris Robitaille, will donate 50 percent of the map's limited-edition proceeds to the UM Alumni Association http://www.grizalum.org/ , which commissioned the project.
- Camas Creek Yarn scores national deal for college kits
The downtown Kalispell yarn shop has gotten the national licensing needed to sell collegiate knitting kits on a wholesale basis for 100 colleges and universities across the country.
- Entrepreneur Ray Thompson Plans New Light Manufacturing Plant to Employ Up to 100 North of Kalispell, Montana
The application notes Thompson wants to start a new light manufacturing company that would employ up to 100 people.
- Labor shortage continues for Sidney, Montana businesses
"Overall, the community has understood the situation. As time progresses, I see people are getting more short with us," Ackley said. "It leaves the people with fewer choices. I understand their situation, and I hope they understand ours. It's starting to wear on everybody."
- How Business Friendly Are Montana's 25 Largest Cities?
Cities and towns are the real engines that drive the statewide economy and Montanans should consider how they compare against each other with respect to economic, social, and educational factors attractive to businesses.
The Missoula Economic Partnership
- Report claims Heritage Act will boost Montana economies
The report states that passage of the bill would have no negative impacts on the local economies.
- ALONG SCHAER'S WAY Businessman lands state preservation award for Montana Avenue transformation
The building-by-building restoration has taken more than three decades, but Montana Avenue has now been largely transformed into a friendly neighborhood filled with fine restaurants, art shops and nightclubs.
- SBA to Award Over $247,000 to Montana to Promote Small Business Exporting
"With 95 percent of the world's consumers living outside of the United States, exporting gives small businesses the opportunity to reach new markets, increase sales and create jobs," said SBA Administrator Karen Mills.
- Senator Baucus Announces Major Milestone To: "Rewrite the Cycle of Boom and Bust in the Bakken"
"We can rewrite the cycle of boom and bust in the Bakken by planning ahead and getting all hands on deck, which is what this project will help us do."
Careers
- Want to Launch a Successful Startup? Look for a Small Town
It's easy to see the benefits of being an entrepreneur in the Silicon Valleys and the Seattles of America, but in the midst of those metropolises, the benefits of starting in a smaller town are overlooked.
City Club Missoula
- TED Video: Are droids taking our jobs?
We ain't seen nothing yet.
- Programming, Database Skills Top Wall Street Hiring Wish List
Whether big data, "algo" jockeys, high-speed trading or client service, Wall Street craves tech skills, as revealed by the top skills searched for on eFinancialCareers.
Developing an Angel Network in Montana
- City Club Missoula Presents: Montana Museum Of Art And Culture Hidden Treasure In The Treasure State, 10/8, Missoula
MMAC http://www.umt.edu/montanamuseum/ Director Barbara Koostra will summarize the museum's development over the past few years by highlighting the richness and depth of the permanent collection - a treasure owned by all Montanans.
Developing Tech Jobs in Rural Communities
- Add Startups to Balance Your Portfolio, If You Dare
Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities.
Government
- The Creative Economy is not just for Large Urban Centres
For those who prefer outdoor activities like skiing, hiking, or camping, close proximity to nature is a strong advantage.
- This is how you build a tech community
This is the type of tech center that government officials dream about building.
Other Economies
- Movie: "Gold Diggers: Investment Fraud In The Treasure State", 9/26, Missoula
With the help of award-winning actor and Montana resident Bill Pullman as narrator, the stories in this documentary are told by some of the real Montanans who together lost millions in the Heffelfinger and Schlenker cases in Helena and Bozeman.
Regional Business
- Obama Administration Announces Winners of Strong Cities, Strong Communities Challenge to Spur Economic Growth
The Strong Cities, Strong Communities Challenge is being led by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA).
Regional Economic Development
- Is the Re-shoring of Manufacturing a Trend or a Trickle?
Re-shoring is indeed real, and the reasons are not the ones that would immediately come to mind.
- The New York Times Says Data Centers Suck -- But Here's What They Missed
Largely lost amid the Times' multiple-page analysis is the fact that the data centers built by a handful of internet giants are looking less and less like the 40- by 60-foot rental space that was home to Facebook back in 2006 -- and that these advances are just beginning to trickle down to the rest of the industry.
- Boris Wertz & Version One Ventures: The NW's Newest Early Stage VC
Although the geographic focus will be across North America, Wertz says the two most important markets for the new Version One Ventures are Vancouver and Seattle.
Workforce Development
- Duke professor has a plan to create jobs for everyone
While the plan has its critics, there is a growing chorus of economists and policy makers who argue that giving men and women paychecks does more good than giving money to private companies in the hope it will lead to job creation.
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- FVCC Awarded $3.65 Million in Grants for Training Programs
Money will help college respond to needs of manufacturing industry
- State can be model for creating skilled workers
An expert in invention and entrepreneurship who has forgotten more about both than most people know recently used this line in a room of economic development professionals: "Increasingly, there is no room in America for the unskilled."
- Examining Workforce Needs In Missoula, 10/2
All Missoula businesses are encouraged to attend and contribute to the conversation!
Education
- Give me an S - Cheerleaders inspiring girls (and boys) in STEM education
"Science cheerleaders" are a rapidly growing group of women in the United States who perform during professional sporting events while also pursuing advanced degrees in science, engineering and medicine.
- Microsoft Launches $500 Million Global Youth Initiative - YouthSpark
Microsoft announced a new youth-based global program that serves to close the "opportunity gap" for young people.
- Young Parents Education Center helps break poverty cycle
Of the 23 students who graduated the program last year, all had solid plans for the future, with 13 planning to work and go to college, seven just planning to attend college and three just planning to work.
- Mountain Home Montana to add therapeutic mental health services
It's been an effective program that has served well over 400 teenage mothers who otherwise would struggle with homelessness, poverty, family or partner violence, and other life challenges that would undermine success in the raising of their children.
- Cloud Helps At-Risk, Special Needs Students
Education Services of America (ESA) - a private company that provides alternative education programs for students at-risk of dropping out and for special needs students - says it has partnered with 230 public school districts in 21 states to help 12,000 students each year.
Missoula Children's Theatre
- Student Run Business Accelerator
There are quite a few educational opportunities available for current and future entrepreneurs, but one program in particular stands out.
- BYU, University of Utah entrepreneurship programs ranked in top 20
More than 90 percent of the entrepreneurship faculty at both BYU and the U. are entrepreneurs, and both schools earmark hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for entrepreneur scholarships and business-plan prize money.
Montana Education Excellence
- Auditions For Miracle On 34th Street-The Musical, 9/30, Missoula
We are also looking for a man with "eyes that twinkle, and dimples that are merry; cheeks like roses, and a nose like a cherry; a droll little mouth that draws up like a bow and a beard on his chin as white as the snow." In other words...Kris Kringle.
Community
- 2011-2012 University of Montana School of Business Administration Dean's Report
A special and heartfelt thanks goes out to each of you who continue to support the School of Business Administration in so many different ways.
Funding and Building your BusinessEnergy and Climate Change
- How Many Startup Stock Options are Enough?
"How many shares should I ask for when I join a startup today?"
- Drastically Improve Your Website With A/B Testing
There's a famous example of a major online retailer changing the text of an online checkout button, and that single change netting the company $3 million and a 45 percent increase in the number of purchasing customers.
- Finding Angel Money is Easier if You Know the Rules
So how do you find those good angels?
- Breaking Up (With a Co-Founder) Is Hard to Do
How you go about handling the situation can mean the difference between an amicable split, where you run the business as you see fit, and a messy divorce, in which you wind up losing money, clients, resources or other critical assets.
- By hiring online, companies often miss best applicants
Overly rigid screening contributes to shortage of skilled workers, experts say.
- Female entrepreneurs and maternity leave
A handful of European studies have concluded that the generous maternity leave benefits in Europe tend to discourage women from entrepreneurship.
- Entrepreneurship Is All About Taking Smart Risks
Here are some simple examples of "smart" calculated risks that you should be working on:
Making the Most of the American Prairie
- University of Montana professor Running says only 10 percent of planet's plant resources in reserve
The question isn't whether humans will push the planet to its plant-production limits, but when.
- Educating the Future Smart Grid Workforce
We need an increase in the entire STEM workforce to deal with smart grid and many other important technologies that are shaping business and society today.
- Will Water Become the Chief Commodity of the 21st Century?
South Bend, Ind., avoided $120 million in upgrades and conserved millions of gallons of water by becoming one of the first cities on the globe to use cloud computing to manage its water systems.
Connectivity & Communications
- Plowing away the prairie, at a price
The 10,000-year-old native prairie that once stretched from Saskatchewan to the Gulf of Mexico has become one of the most threatened ecosystems on Earth -- more so even than the world's tropical rain forests, ecologists say.
Miscellaneous Ramblings
- Hospitals should provide health care -- not build telecom networks
The Health Information Exchange is a waste of our money.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- A Love Story In 22 Pictures
A picture is worth 1000 words. Keep tissues handy.
Transportation
- The Era of Retail 3D Printing Begins
Software is catching up, so that true amateurs--and not just engineers--can design their own models and print them with relative ease.
- Book Review: 'Makers,' by Chris Anderson
Just as the Web changed, redistributed, and sped up the diffusion of information--and created and destroyed businesses along the way--Anderson argues that desktop production and design will change manufacturing from a cumbersome process based on capital to a flexible one based on creativity.
- Tesla unveils high-speed charging for electric cars
Musk says owners weren't asking for it. They're just getting it. "This is something those who bought the car didn't know they were getting," he says.
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