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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Jun 9, 2009 |
"Every student in America should graduate ready for college, a career, and life," he said. "Every child. No exceptions." Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
Blackfoot Telecommunications Group
Montana World Trade Center
- Blackfoot business customer appreciation summer series 2009
Summer is coming and Missoula is one of the best places to spend it!
- Blackfoot Delivers $16,000 in Scholarship Assistance to College Bound
Blackfoot is proud to announce the recipients of their 2009 scholarship education program:
TechRanch
- MWTC Newsletter - June 4
SPECIAL WEBINAR FOR MONTANA COMPANIES (JUNE 10): HOW TO IDENTIFY, TRACK AND PURSUE WORLD BANK FUNDED PROJECTS
City Club Missoula
- World Famous BioTech Pioneer & Montana Native Dr. Leroy Hood, 10/9, Bozeman, Montana
TechRanch http://www.techranch.org is pleased to present: World Famous BioTech Pioneer & Montana Native Dr. Leroy Hood, President of the Institute for Systems Biology on Friday, October 9, 2009.
Come Home Montana
- UM provost to discuss student preparation at City Club on July 15
Royce Engstrom, University of Montana provost and vice president for academic affairs, will be the featured speaker. He also will discuss balancing academic innovation with fiscal responsibility.
Warren Miller Freedom Foundation
- Ed Olson and Jeanine Haugan-Olson bring their Silicon Valley GPS expertise to Red Lodge, Montana to form SiliconSky GPS
Olson describes his company's role as "helping companies to integrate GPS into their products."
Montana Business
- Warren Miller: A red-velvet start to filmmaker's business career
The next day, Friday, the three of us had lunch together. That's when I found out that my pupil, Hal Geneen, was the comptroller of Bell and Howell. I didn't know what a comptroller was, but he said, “Chuck and I had a talk at breakfast and we are going to loan you your camera to get your business started and you can pay us out of your future earnings.”
Montana Economic Development
- First Payments Mailed to Oilseed Growers who sold their crops to Sustanable Systems LLC of Culbertson, Montana
The Montana Department of Agriculture mailed partial payment checks totaling $611,770 Friday to 40 farmers in Montana and North Dakota who delivered 2008 safflower crops to Sustainable Systems LLC at Culbertson and were not paid.
- Federal awards of stimulus funds favor big firms - “It's a farce. It stinks of politics and big special interests.” Workshop aims to bring local contractors on board
“someone's palm is getting greased.”
Business Plan Forums
- Missoula Area Economic Development Corporation Summer BBQ Kickoff, 6/16, Missoula. MAEDC aims for regional blueprint
We Invite You To Join Us For Beer, Brats and Burgers
- U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Announces Recovery Act Grant to Create Jobs, Boost Development in Montana
"Tony Preite Director of the Mt. Department of Commerce stated that “the infusion of $2,700,000 into the DOC revolving loan Fund account by the Economic Development Administration will greatly benefit the Montana Woods Products Industry. The outstanding effort by Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester to obtain these funds provide a tremendous boost to accelerate the Recovery of the Woods Product Industry in Montana.These funds will be complimented by an additional $9,000,000."
- Montana Food and Agriculture Development Centers to focus on food, bio-energy
The four Food and Agriculture Development Centers are intended to operate as a statewide network that can offer a broad array of value-added, agriculture-related educational and technical assistance to individuals, cooperatives and businesses seeking to develop agricultural, food and farm-based energy products.
- Missoula Area Economic Development Corp. aims for regional blueprint
At the heart of the effort is one question: What is our future?
Developing Funding Opportunities in Montana
- Business plan contest kicks off Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Conference
The conference is designed to give fledgling entrepreneurs the strategies and tools they need to be successful, says Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council http://www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com/ , which organizes the business plan contest.
- Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Cisco to hold Global Business Plan Competition via Cisco TelePresence™ Companies Partner to Encourage Entrepreneurship; Winner to Receive $250,000 Investment
“For the past four years, DFJ has held only regional competitions. We are excited to partner with Cisco and expand this opportunity globally to include regions covered by our DFJ Global Network,” said Tim Draper, managing director, DFJ.
Funding and Building your Business
- Investors Want Smaller Venture Funds
Investors in venture capital funds — most of whom manage foundations, endowments, pension funds and firms that invest money for wealthy families — say they want venture funds to shrink to a smaller size.
Montana Education Excellence
- Unique Ways Entrepreneurs Are Raising Money
There are plenty of entrepreneurs who refuse to throw in the towel. Instead they're coming up with creative ways to keep their companies afloat.
- Sequioa Capital's Michael Moritz on long shots and how he picks companies
One of the world's pre-eminent venture capitalists, Michael Moritz of Sequioa Capital http://www.sequoiacap.com/, has picked winners like Flextronics, Cisco Systems, Yahoo, PayPal and Google by focusing on small teams or individuals that on first glance might appear to be unfundable.
- NASVF Net News
The problem? In short, limited partners--the institutions (endowments, pension funds, foundations, etc) pouring cash into venture capital firms--were flooding the industry.
- TechCrunch, Founders fund award 22 entrepreneurs $50K each
The recipients were divided into four groups: Disruptive Innovation, Engineering Leadership, Product Design and Marketing, and General Management:
- This recession isn't being kind to fledgling entrepreneurs
One in four workers who have not found jobs are considering launching a business, a CareerBuilder.com survey says.
Montana Education/Business Partnerships
- An Academic Disconnect at the Montana University System Board of Regents
A freeze would have provided an acknowledgement by university officials that we are all in this together. Instead, while an economy has forced sacrifices across the board in the public and private sectors, the university system, whether deserved, appears utterly disconnected by raising prices during the worst recession in a half century.
- Neurosciencetists from throughout the U.S. gather in Seeley Lake, Montana
"They've established a really world class neuroscience research program here in this state" said Mathew Ames, the Director of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. "And it's pretty hard to do anywhere these days let alone here."
Idaho Business
- Study: Flathead Valley Community College has brought in millions of dollars in regional income to Northwest Montana.
The numbers indicate that Flathead and Lincoln counties have received about $113 million in regional income due to the impact of FVCC and its students, and that figure has more than doubled from nearly $50 million when the last study was done in 2005.
Utah Economic Development
- Business teams up with environment in Idaho - Going Green for the Green
Being environmentally friendly has not traditionally been seen as economically practical. On Tuesday morning the Coeur d'Alene Area Chamber of Commerce plans to change that.
Washington State Business
- Utah Updates State Portal
State portals have never looked, or acted, like this.
Wyoming Business
- New State of Washington Commerce director talks about his new role
Much of his work experience comes from a 15-year stint at software giant Microsoft where he managed teams in the Windows, mobile devices, online content and consumer software divisions.
Education
- "Building The Wyoming We Want: Values And Vision", 6/9-10,Casper, Wyoming
The general public in Wyoming and community leaders aren't on the same page when it comes to the ingredients for long-term quality growth of their communities, according to a poll conducted last winter.
Connectivity & Communications
- Using Market Forces to End Education Inequity
Imagine a kid from rural Montana who, after scoring high on the SAT, has investors clamoring to finance his college education.
- New Stanford dean of Graduate School of Business touts 'critical thinking'
"We need to look beyond the narrower issues of 'functional expertise' " - the traditional MBA managerial focus - "and more on what is going on outside."
- Year-Round School? My Kids Love It. Yours Will, Too.
My children attend a year-round school. And these are the kinds of hands-on, big-project classes that are taught during "intersessions," or short breaks throughout the year that take the place of the long, lazy, Huck Finn summers that most Americans have come to think of as an inalienable right of childhood.
- Coaching Students To Stay In School
"Every student in America should graduate ready for college, a career, and life," he said. "Every child. No exceptions." Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
Energy and Climate Change
- Rural Americans long to be linked
"Just because we live in rural America doesn't mean we shouldn't have broadband," says Roper, a third-generation peanut farmer. "We're all Americans. We shouldn't be treated less than anyone else."
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Northwest's biofuel boom goes bust
In two short years, the Northwest has gone from biofuels boom to biofuels bust.
Government Technology
- Siri lifts veil on intelligent assistant. Heading toward the iPhone App store this fall.
"The future of search isn't search. It is a conversation with someone you trust."
Non-Profit News
- New York State IT Office Launches Social Networking Strategy
The Office for Technology is leading the way.
- Greater Yellowstone Coalition - Reserve A Spot At Ted Turner’s Flying D Ranch, 7/11, Montana
Take a driving ranch tour guided by Ted himself, enjoy cocktails on a sun-kissed patio ablaze with wildflowers, and savor a gourmet bison dinner with the Spanish Peaks as the stunning backdrop. This one-of-a-kind event is a special benefit to GYC and is almost to capacity!
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