Bootstrapping your Business in Rural Montana with TechRanch

Some 25 to 30 entrepreneurs from the Havre area Wednesday learned some tips on how to ramp up their business with little or no external funding, a process known as “bootstrapping” — pulling a business up by its own bootstraps.

The group was at tending a Bootstrap Montana seminar at Montana State University-Northern conducted by Tech Ranch http://www.techranch.org , a business incubation organization based out of Bozeman. Prairie Lee, Tech Ranch business manager, said the group is using a $29,000 two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development to hold seminars for entrepreneurs. “We are targeting rural Montana,” she said.

Bootstrap Montana: http://www.Bootstrapmontana.org

Tim Leeds Havre Daily News [email protected]

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