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“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” - John D. Rockefeller
Ron Clausen is adding to the future success of Montana - One trout at a time. "The Lure of the River. "Clients are friends I go fishing with." http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Come Home Montana
Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana
- Montana Career Opportunity - First Night Missoula Event Coordinator - Missoula Cultural Council
Event planning, scheduling, volunteer recruitment, and ability to work under pressure of strict timeline.
Funding and Building your Business
- Few States Promote Entrepreneurship Education in Schools. What does your state do?
Only New York and California require that high school students take entrepreneurship classes before graduation.
Education
- Some Companies Are Helping Workers Look After Aging Parents
Now, in the first shift in elder-care benefits in years, a few employers are offering elder-care programs aimed at the health and well-being of the workers themselves.
- Noncompete clause filters down from executive suite
Noncompetes — long a fact of life for top executives and others with access to company secrets — are being used by lower-paying service and blue-collar employers and being enforced by courts in record numbers.
- Networking for entrepreneurial survival
Breathe deeply and take a few minutes to absorb the realities of what the terms "networking and networks" mean in today's competitive environment.
- No Plan, No Capital, No Model...No Problem
He is the only employee, and he only has one server. And by the way, he makes $5-6 million/year with Google ads.
- Learning How to Talk To Angel Investors
A list of books and Web sites for entrepreneurs looking to familiarize themselves with angel investing.
- High emotional intelligence translates to a great boss
Today's leaders require more than experience, business savvy, IQ and technical skills to be successful.
- Ahead of the Curve. Finding out what'll be big before anyone else does. "Coolfarmers"
If you knew in advance what the next must-have product or service was going to be, your entrepreneurial fortune would be made.
- Entrepreneur's 2007 Top 100 Venture Capital Firms
For entrepreneurs who want to join the big leagues, a venture capital firm can invest the funds to get you there.
Connectivity & Communications
- BYU team wins top ad award in Paris
"We were picked the best out of all 35 countries competing,"
- Career Technical Education Critical for Success in Today's Economy. "Retooling Career Technical Education"
Today's economy requires that high school graduates possess skills and knowledge dramatically different than a generation ago. Responding to this changing landscape, and in order to provide students with multiple pathways to academic and career success, the NGA Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) today released a new Issue Brief titled Retooling Career Technical Education that provides states with strategies to reorient career technical programs towards high-wage/high-skill industries.
- Connecting middle school to high school
"I think that what this comes down to is ensuring that all students are successful in high school," said Tom Luna, state superintendent of Public Instruction. "And when we talk about being successful in high school, we mean that when a child enters high school, they don't need to be remediated."
- U.S. must focus on education
Unless there is a dramatic shift, more than 12 million students will drop out nationwide over the next decade, resulting in a $3 trillion blow to our nation's economy.
Incubators and R&D
- The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture. Reflections on a new monkey business
If infinite monkeys were equipped with infinite typewriters, eventually some of them would write masterpieces comparable to those of Shakespeare, Plato and Adam Smith.
Montana Business
- Researchers relish Yellowstone Heritage Center
The Center is a combination warehouse, library, archive, office and research complex includes 5.3 million cataloged items.
Montana Economic Development
- Don Bottrell of Billings, Montana works behind scenes to develop huge variety of businesses.
He has taken a variety of business opportunities, and that has resulted in a great degree of diversification for Diamond B.
- Montana Mnufacturing Center Spring 2007 Newsletter
Encouraging signs about global market expansion as a real growth opportunity here in Montana are in the news.
Regional Economic Development
- Montana Workforce Training Grant Funds Available from Commerce
"Every day we're working to create more good jobs for Montanans," said Governor Brain Schweitzer.
- Montana Senators Baucus and Tester announce more than $250,000 in grants to create, save jobs
“Small businesses are the engine that drives our state’s economy” Baucus said. “And these dollars will make sure that the engine is running on all cylinders to keep our economy strong and create more good-paying jobs.”
- The Lure of the River. "Clients are friends I go fishing with." Ron Clausen
"Listen to the river, and you will learn all you need to know from the trout."
- Montana Representative Rehberg Secures $200,000 in Funding for Montana Manufacturing Extension Center Bio-Product Business Development
“The technology behind the bio-products industry is continuously developing new uses for raw ag materials,” said Rehberg, a member of the House Financial Services Appropriations Subcommittee. “This creates a great opportunity for the value of Montana ag products to soar as they are needed for alternative fuels, household products, and other uses. The partnership between MMEC and local businesses will be critical to advancing this industry throughout Montana.”
- Kalispell Business Expansion & Retention (BEAR) effort receives international recognition
At the 2007 Business Retention and Expansion International (BREI) conference, the efforts of the Northwest Montana Business Expansion and Retention (BEAR) Program received international recognition as the Outstanding Small Community BR&E Program for 2006.
Miscellaneous Ramblings
- Competitive Regional Clusters: National Policy Approaches
Cluster-based innovation strategies in Europe
Careers
- Games to Stretch Your Brain
Bored with brain games that don't let you match your wits against other players?
Montana Education Excellence
- New grads can avoid big money mistakes
The fact is that many will begin their working lives making huge money mistakes. Perhaps the following advice will help change their financial course:
- Montana University System makes core classes available online. Credits are transferrable between each campus
The Montana University System, which includes MSU, UM and the state's community and tribal colleges, recently launched a Web site that includes core courses available online. The courses are also transferable between each campus.
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