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WEDA Winter Conference And 5th Annual Legislative Reception, ,2/9-10, Cheyenne, Wyoming
2010-02-09

Montana State University Northern - 2010 Career & Internship Fair, 2/9, Havre, Montana
2010-02-09

What Makes A Product “Green”?, 02/11, Missoula
2010-02-11

Securing A Gift - It's More Than "Just Money", 02/11, Kalispell
2010-02-11

Utilizing Social Media And Involving The Younger Generation In Giving And Advocacy, 2/12, Missoula
2010-02-12

The U.S. Infrastructure Crisis And The Benefits Of Fiber Reinforced Concrete (FRC), 2/12, Hamilton, Montana
2010-02-12

PrintingForLess.com -Free Webinar: 3 Keys To Direct Mail Success, 2/12, Online
2010-02-12

'Chicks In Science', 2/13, Montana State University Billings
2010-02-13

Kalispell Chamber Luncheon To Feature Semitool Founder, Ray Thompson, 2/16, Kalispell, Montana
2010-02-16

Community Resource Fair, 2/16, Missoula, Montana
2010-02-16

Supervisor Boot Camp, 2/17-18, Montana State University - Bozeman, Montana
2010-02-17

Emotional And Social Intelligence Discussion Group, 02/17, Bozeman
2010-02-17

MWTC Presents: “Double Your Trade Show Results ― Guaranteed”, 2/17, Missoula, Montana
2010-02-17

SenatorTester To Host Second Workshop For Montana Contractors, Businesses, 2/19, Bozeman
2010-02-19

Senator Tester Hosts Small Business Opportunity Workshop, 2/19, Bozeman, Montana
2010-02-19

Leadership Conference “It Starts Here” , 2/20, University Of Montana
2010-02-20

Venture Capital In The Rockies - Call For Presenters - 2/23-25, Beaver Creek, Colorado
2010-02-23

Missoula Area Economic Development Corporation Annual Membership And Awards Meeting, 2/23, Missoula
2010-02-23

Salish Kootenai College 2010 Career/Job Fair, 2/23, Pablo, Montana
2010-02-23

Montana Ambassador Annual Conference - Montana’s Recovering Economy: Where Do We Go From Here?, 2/25-26, Great Falls
2010-02-25

Notice Of Public Hearing On Proposed Amendment To Big Sky Economic Development Trust Fund Program, 3/2, Helena, Montana
2010-03-02

Ignite Missoula V.2, 3/4, Missoula, Montana
2010-03-04

IC2 Student Commercialization Plan Competition, 3/15-17, Arlington, Texas
2010-03-15

"A" Is The Way - Workshop Event With Geoff Smart, CEO Of GhSMART, 3/19, Billings, Montana
2010-03-19

U.S. Venture Partners Co-Hosting Agriculture 2.0 Conference, 3/24, Palo Alto, CA
2010-03-24

Intermountain Presents The Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Study, 3/26, Kalispell, Montana
2010-03-26

“The ‘Next’ Economy: A Statewide Public Discussion On Jobs And Innovation”, 4/5-6, Bozeman, Montana
2010-04-05

Idaho Small Business Summit With Gov. Butch Otter, 4/13, Boise State University
2010-04-13

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News Last updated: Tue Feb 9th at 6PM

How colleges can better nurture startups

While successful technology entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs founded their respective companies after dropping out of college, research universities have still succeeded in fostering their own innovative technologies. Currently, however, when a professor or student develops a particularly extraordinary idea or product, the process of spinning-off the intellectual property into its own ...

The Mothers of Invention

When these women saw a need for healthier children's fare, they decided to become entrepreneurs. And they're making their mark on the food business. By DALE BUSS Full Story: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000 ... allbusiness ...

Report: Tax Incentives Waste Money, Don't Create Jobs

A study funded by Heinz Endowments and undertaken by non-profit Good Jobs First has questioned the value of Pennsylvania’s use of large tax breaks to lure high-tech business to the state and keep existing players from relocating. The 94-page study, called “Growing Pennsylvania’s High Tech Economy: Choosing Effective Investments,” released today, compared Pennsylvania’s incentives and job-creation ...

Sussex School Tech Club in Missoula, Montana is seeking volunteers with a passion for sharing their technology skills with eager minds.

The meeting times for the club are on Thursdays three times a month either at the noon hour or after school from 3:10pm - 4:30pm. (please see attached schedule,or below or contact Youpa Stein). Occasionally we can schedule a Friday after school time. Sussex Tech Club http://www.sussexschool.org/ is a opportunity for students in the 4th - 8th grade to explore their technology interests. ...

The Open Angel Forum & The Changing Face Of The Venture Industry

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the first Colorado Open Angel Forum (OAF) http://openangelforum.com/. The OAF was born out of the frustration of some well-known investors including Brad Feld (An Angel Investor Group That Makes Me Vomit)http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009 ... -vomit.html , David Cohen (An Offer To Funding Universe) http://www.davidgcohen.com/2009/09/2 ... g-universe/ ...

$100,000 University of Montana salary worthy of admiration, not ridicule

The Missoulian published an article (Jan. 10) stating that 152 employees of the University of Montana make more than $100,000 and suggested that might be wasteful or unfair. The article contained my comments so I’d like to offer another perspective and continue that very necessary public conversation about the future of our university and the nation. Some readers may feel outraged, believing that ...

Montana Career Opportunity - Lender Relations Specialist - Small Business Administration

Job Title: Lender Relations Specialist, GS-1101-9/11/12 Agency: Small Business Administration Job Announcement Number: 10D-110-JE SALARY RANGE: 47,448.00 - 89,450.00 USD /year OPEN PERIOD: Monday, February 01, 2010 to Friday, February 12, 2010 SERIES & GRADE: GS-1101-09/12 POSITION INFORMATION: Full TimeCareer/Career Conditional PROMOTION POTENTIAL: 12 DUTY LOCATIONS: ...

Idaho National Laboratory providing science, math grants to schools

If schools can’t get money from the education department, they can always look toward a nuclear-energy facility. The Idaho National Laboratory http://www.inl.gov has announced the availability of grant applications to advance instruction in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs. The grants aren’t huge — INL calls them “mini grants” — but they’re helpful. One will provide ...

Montana Assistance For Business Clinics 2010 - Throughout Montana - Various Dates

The Assistance for Business Clinics are developed to assist NEW and ESTABLISHED employers, accountants, bookkeepers, human resource professionals and lawyers in constructing a proactive approach to prevent unnecessary claims and/or charges by providing updated reporting of state withholding, Unemployment Tax requirements, minimum wage laws, overtime laws, civil rights laws, new hire reporting, ...

Leadership Conference “It Starts Here” , 2/20, University Of Montana

The University Center Student Involvement will host the 12th Annual Student Leadership Conference on Saturday, Feb. 20, at The University of Montana. The conference will run from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the third floor of the UC. It is open to all UM students. Registration costs $10 and is available at The Source in the UC. Lunch and conference materials will be provided. This year’s conference ...

For Students at Risk, Early College Proves a Draw

Here, and at North Carolina’s other 70 early-college schools, the goal is to keep at-risk students in school by eliminating the divide between high school and college. “We don’t want the kids who will do well if you drop them in Timbuktu,” said Lakisha Rice, the principal. “We want the ones who need our kind of small setting.” Results have been impressive. Not all students at North Carolina’s ...

Planning the ‘smart grid’ - Bozeman company, Grasslands Renewable Energy LLC, proposes solution to wind’s variability

Carl Borgquist’s vision started with a whiteboard and a marker in his hands. Five years later, the president of the Bozeman-based Grasslands Renewable Energy http://www.gre-llc.com/ still flourishes a marker and sketches on the whiteboard to illustrate his plan for wind power in the Northern Plains. Borgquist doesn’t build wind farms, rather he’s got a plan for collecting and transmitting wind ...

Biomimicry Institute at Arizona State University

ASU has become the newest member of the Biomimicry Affiliate Program of the Montana-based Biomimicry Institute http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/. ASU is the only US institution to be awarded this status. KJZZ's Dennis Lambert visited with ASU Associate Professor and program director for industrial design Prasad Boradkar and Adiran Smith, a Biology Phd Student in the ASU School of Life Science ...

The 15 Coolest College Courses

From "The Art of Garbage"at Santa Clara to "Tree Climbing" at Cornell, the scope of education in America is changing to make it more practical. Posted by Rasmussen Full Story: http://collegetimes.us/the-15-cooles ... ge-courses/ ...

IBM, Microsoft Help Create Montana Supercomputer

Montana’s “Big Sky” supercomputer, powered by technology from IBM, Microsoft, NextIO and Nice, is aimed at revitalizing the Rocky Mountain region by attracting business and jobs to the area. Officials with the Rocky Mountain Supercomputer Centers wanted to create an environment where any business can get access to HPC capabilities, regardless of their size. By: Jeffrey Burt Full Story: ...

Employers, plan now for Mental Health Parity rules

Large employers need to start planning, if they haven’t already, to meet new regulations issued under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. New rules around the act were published on Feb. 2 and impact any plan years beginning on or after July 1, 2010. Essentially, the act says that employers and group health plans cannot provide less coverage for mental health care than for ...

The Gero-Economy Revs Up

Green jobs? Great. Gray jobs? Maybe an even better bet for the new jobs bill. If there is a single graphic that everyone concerned with the nation’s future should have tattooed on their eyeballs, my vote goes to the one on your left. Here is its central message: Forty years from now, one out of four Americans will be 65 or older. Twenty million will be over 85. One million will be over 100. ...

'Future of Work' predicts jobs and home life will merge more

The line between work and home is disappearing, says former Financial Times columnist Richard Donkin in his new book. "We don't stop living when we go to work and, very often today, we don't stop working when we arrive home." Technology has merged our working and personal lives, creating a more unified experience described in The Future of Work. By Seth Brown, Special for USA TODAY Full ...

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