5 ChatGPT Prompts To Start A Business With No Money

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MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association

• How to Start a Successful Podcast

  Topics covered include defining your podcast’s purpose, recommended recording gear, podcast hosting, show formatting, and creative elements like artwork and music.

Missoula Chamber of Commerce

• Mission Match-Up Volunteer Expo April 22, 2025 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Commercial Building, Missoula County Fairgrounds

  Meet one-on-one with local organizations to discover where your passions align. Walk away inspired and connected with a cause that matters to you.

Great Falls Development Alliance

• GFDA Top Ten for 4-13-25 – So much happening in Great Falls, Montana

  Great Falls has the only accredited Mainstreet program in Montana where these organizations and others form the Downtown Development Partnership.

• GFDA Top Ten for 4-6-25

  Congratulations to The Union restaurant in Helena, created and owned by Old Salt Coop, one of our meat processing clients, on being named a James Beard Award finalist! See KRTV.

Montana’s Headwaters Tech Hub

• AI advances mean we need to double down on this one skill

  No matter how much technological progress we make, jobs of the future will require this very human skill.

Montana Business

• Hamilton, Montana leaders address cuts at Rocky Mountain Labs

  Federal layoffs are affecting Hamilton, where city leaders express concern over job reductions at Rocky Mountain Labs, part of a nationwide cut. The impact of these layoffs could be significant for the local economy.

• Montana’s Stockman Bank recognized as one of the world’s best by Forbes

  Bill Coffee, CEO of Stockman Bank, expressed his gratitude for the recognition. “Being acknowledged for four consecutive years and being the sole bank from Montana featured on this list is a remarkable honor,” he said. Coffee emphasized that the award reflects the trust customers have in Stockman Bank and the dedication of its employees.

• CBS Sunday Morning – AARP and the business of an aging audience

  AARP began as an advocacy group for older Americans concerned about Social Security, Medicare, and family caregiving. Today it represents 110 million Americans in the 50+ demographic who are living longer and retiring later.

• Montana’s Historic Frontier Town Bar Made From A Single Giant 50-Foot Log May Reopen

  A California couple bought Frontier Town, the inspiration for Disney’s Frontierland. It’s also home to one of the largest bars ever made from a single giant 50-foot, and the new owners hope to reopen it.

• Why business leaders should have more conversations with frontline workers

  The people who are managing your products and customers have insights that could help your business avoid headaches and gain customers.

• Governor Greg Gianforte today announced Montana was ranked as the best state for business startups.

  How many new “startups” are registering cars and RV’s? – The Montana tax advantage refers to a legal strategy that allows individuals to avoid paying hefty sales taxes and high registration fees on vehicles by registering them through a Montana LLC.

Funding and Building your Business

• 5 ChatGPT Prompts To Start A Business With No Money

  In 2025, all you need is an internet connection, plenty of enthusiasm, and a way of creating value that people are willing to pay for. The rest will follow. Copy, paste and edit the square brackets in ChatGPT, and keep the same chat window open so the context carries through.

• What the Investor Behind Jonathan Adler and Draper James Looks For in a Pitch

  We look at something and ask, “Can we do it better?”

• Montana Quantum Education and Workforce Development

  Montana State University’s Applied Quantum CORE (QCORE) is supported by the Air Force Research Laboratory to move advanced quantum technology applications from concept and testing to market.

Rural Communities

• Cheyenne, Wyoming Primed For More Huge Data Centers As Artificial Intelligence Explodes

  A large data center logistics company is touting Cheyenne as the ideal home for the nation’s next major data center. That could position the city for an explosion of Artificial Intelligence and data centers.

YOUR CAREER

• CBS Sunday Morning – American retirees expand their world overseas

  When it came time to retire, Mary Charlebois and Kevin Scanlon left Mendocino County in California searching for community and a calmer way of life. They now live fulltime on the Mediterranean island of Gozo, part of the Maltese archipelago.

Energy and Transportation

• ‘Love on the Spectrum’ star discusses autism independence in new Waymo video series – Cars and Coffee without a driver….

  The autonomous vehicle company celebrates Autism Acceptance Month with Netflix star Connor Tomlinson.

• Grunge Meets Grid: How Pearl Jam’s Carbon Price Led Me to Battery ETFs

  Pearl Jam, the grunge rock heavy hitter recently reached out to me to ask how they could invest their personal carbon pricing of their concert travels at $200 per ton.

21st Century Education Initiative – “You Should Care…”

• Is Admissions Trump’s Next Higher Ed Target?

  The administration wants “comprehensive admissions reform” at colleges. It’s unclear what that means or how it would be enforced, but pressure to avoid scrutiny could affect admissions practices.

• Think Smarter, Not Harder – Your Personalized AI Research Assistant – GoogleNotebookLM

  The ultimate tool for understanding the information that matters most to you, built with Gemini 2.0

• aiEDU – AI literacy should be a basic component of every student’s education.

  Are students ready for the age of artificial intelligence?

• Montana Professional Learning Collaborative – ​Your Resource for Professional Learning

  Self-paced online courses for professional development units or University of Montana credits. We also offer VESi and Thinkific online courses.

• The 7th Annual STEM Summer Institute

  The 7th Annual STEM Summer Institute is a one-of-a-kind, Montana-made showcase for STEM integration across all grades and subject areas. You’ll enjoy exemplary K-12 STEM instruction and resources, inspiring national speakers, and the best of Montana! This year, the interactive agenda will focus on five key strands:

• MTPLC 2025 August Institute: Innovate, Inspire, Empower: Fostering Holistic Education – 7/30-8/1 – Missoula

  Join us as we reimagine education, spark new ideas, and equip ourselves with the tools to create meaningful, inclusive, and engaging learning experiences.

• Idaho LAUNCH – Funding for College

  Idaho LAUNCH is a grant program that provides students a one-time opportunity to have 80% of the published tuition and fees at an eligible institution covered, up to a maximum amount of $8,000. With approximately 75 million dollars available for Idaho LAUNCH funding, it is possible for this program to offer between 9,000 and 10,000 awards per year!

• Video – Why Finland has the Best Education

  Ninety-three percent of Finns graduate from academic or vocational high schools, 17.5 percentage points higher than the United States, and 66 percent go on to higher education, the highest rate in the European Union. Yet Finland spends about 30 percent less per student than the United States.

• West Valley School robotics team dives into preparations for world championship. The team still needs to raise about $5,000.

  The Gummy Sharks will be judged on their robot’s performance in a game and presentation of an Innovation Project in addition to their adherence of the competition’s core values — teamwork, inclusion (respecting others), impact, fun, discovery and innovation (creativity and persistence).

• STEM Ecosystems

  STEM Ecosystems are community-based collaborations that transform how students learn and connect to future opportunities. They bring together cross-sector partners—schools, afterschool programs, colleges, businesses, community organizations, and government agencies—to create powerful STEM learning experiences.

• TIES – Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM

  Blending evidence-based best practices, cutting-edge technology, and customized solutions, we work with school districts, entire states, government entities, corporations and others who share our belief in the transformative power of STEM.

University of Montana & Montana State University Tech Transfer

• Department of Energy Caps Universities’ Indirect Research Costs at 15%

  While the DOE claims the plan will save taxpayers $405 million, research groups say it’s a “ruinous” policy that will “slow the pace of American research and innovation.”

• Undergraduate researchers at Montana State refine camera to improve skin cancer detection

  By integrating RCM with the miniature camera, doctors can locate skin cancers without biopsies faster and more accurately, no longer “searching for a needle in a haystack,” Smith said.

2025 Legislature and Politics

• Former US Senator Jon Tester is co-hosting a podcast with journalist Maritsa Georgiou

  In this video, Tim McGonigal reports on former US Senator Jon Tester of Montana, who is co-hosting a podcast with journalist Maritsa Georgiou

• The Supreme Court case that seeks to make everyone’s health insurance worse, explained

  The Obamacare wars are back.

• Former agency head on preserving Social Security – CBS Sunday Morning

  The Social Security Administration was already at its smallest size in 50 years when Elon Musk’s DOGE team eliminated another 14% of its employees.

• Trump aides direct Social Security Administration to list more than 6,000 living immigrants as dead

  “President Trump promised mass deportations and by removing the monetary incentive for illegal aliens to come and stay, we will encourage them to self-deport. He is delivering on his promise he made to the American people.”

• The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X

  The SSA’s shift to Elon Musk’s X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.

• ‘Really dark times coming’: DOGE cuts dozens of jobs at Rocky Mountain Labs in Hamilton

  Two dozen Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) employees lost their jobs on Tuesday, April 1 as part of the most recent round of federal layoffs impacting employees at the National Institutes of Health.

Government News & Events

• How cities are making data-driven decisions in the age of AI

  More than 200 cities now have some level of certification, with more likely to follow as local leaders look to make sure their data is in a good condition and plan for an AI-driven future.

• Montana Career Opportunities – Fairgrounds’ community outreach coordinator – The Missoula County Fairgrounds

  This position serves as Fairgrounds’ community outreach coordinator overseeing educational and programming use of the Missoula Fairgrounds facilities. Develops, manages, and evaluates copywriting and reporting analytics to drive strategic marketing and media efforts for the Fairgrounds. Details: We are accepting completed application…

VR/AR, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Artificial Intelligence and The Internet of Things

• Education Secretary Linda McMahon confuses AI with A1, sauce brand capitalizes on blunder

  McMahon, the former CEO of WWE, was confirmed by the US Senate to be the next Secretary of Education last month.

• Small Language Models Are the New Rage

  Researchers Say Larger models can pull off a wider variety of feats, but the reduced footprint of smaller models makes them attractive tools.

• 60 Minutes – Neurosurgeon works to slow Alzheimer’s progression, treat addiction with cutting-edge technology

  Opening the blo0d – brain barrier

• Montana State hosts national research symposium on artificial intelligence

  The event held March 27-28 was one of three major symposia in 2025 sponsored by the American Historical Association on topics pertaining to large-scale research.

• Trump Tariffs Show Signs of Being Written by AI “Exactly what the dumbest kid in the class would do.”

  President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on most goods imported into the US yesterday, affecting over 100 countries — including uninhabited territories in the middle of the ocean.

• North Dakota Announces Launch of State Data Hub, Dashboards

  Its new State Data Hub offers a centralized platform for information on state topics ranging from housing to education. It is intended to simplify access to the details, both for decision-makers and the public.

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