Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation – "A New frontier: Entrepreneurship Ecosystems in Bozeman and Missoula, Montana"

In this report, we examine the local entrepreneurship
ecosystems primarily in Bozeman and Missoula but also in
surrounding areas in Montana. Studying the ecosystems
in these areas is important because there have been few
entrepreneurship studies of small cities, yet some of those
small cities exhibit nationally high levels of entrepreneurship activities.

To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first major study
of the Montana ecosystems. The study is jointly conducted
by academic researchers and local practitioners and funded
by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation http://www.kauffman.org/ , a leading national
philanthropic organization. The findings are as follows:

https://mthightech.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Entrepreneurship-Ecosystems_Montana-Report.pdf

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Three of Missoula’s Best and Most Successful Entrepreneurs

Have you ever hung up on a caller three times before figuring out it’s a company that wants to buy your company?

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Ever considered the real problems you’re opening your company to by getting a patent?

How about the Missoula company with no debt, no investors and only 5 employees making millions with an 85+% profit margin that is now part of Dell?

Full Story: http://www.matr.net/print-52663.html