Archive for June, 2007

Is Boise too Reliant on Micron?

Micron reports $225 Million in quarterly losses. Eddie at the IBR has a good discussion going on over on their site.
Micron is a big ship that has been moving in one direction for a very long time. I know they are trying to change things over there. I hope they can. [...]

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Boise’s CheckaBiz Featured in Business Week

J. Glerum’s company, Boise Based CheckaBiz was recently featured in Business Week.
J. Glerum wrote his final law school paper on music-sharing Web site Kazaa, spent a few months working at law firms, and then in 2005 left the legal world behind to start his own dot-com: Boise-based Check a Biz. Consumers can use the [...]

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TechBoise Q&A Event w/ INL

Now that Bill has managed to stir up a little discussion over our last post we have pulled some strings at the Idaho National Laboratory and got John Lindsey to come out and speak to us next Tuesday. I have asked that John speak specifically about their licensing deals and opportunities, but I’m sure [...]

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No positronic annihilation, but $5 million for Idaho Ec Dev

not even gamma rays, AFAIK.
Idaho had a major ‘hit’ on the US Dept of Labor’s WIRED grant program (Workforce Innovation in Regional Econ Devel) thanks to Joe Herring & his crew down in Twin Falls. I saw his proposal this first time (2+ years ago) and it deserved to be submitted; this time it [...]

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Big Sky Venture Capital Conference - 23/24 August

Dave Bayless alerted me to this up in my old stompin’ grounds - thanks, Dave!
fyi,
Norris
Big Sky Venture Capital Conference
Gary Bloomer at TechRanch is looking for companies to present at the upcoming Big Sky Venture Capital Conference on August 23rd and 24th:
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Lessons from INL

There are two things that I learned from my trip to INL:
1 - Gamma rays can be used to produce positronic annihilation which creates micro-structural changes in materials which can be both good and bad.
Really I just wanted to use positronic annihilation (best potential band name ever) in a sentence.
2 - INL [...]

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Hola de Madrid!

I’m now* at the Babson entrepreneurship research conference in Madrid (warmer than Lapland, LOL).
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The Water Cooler Gains Steam

By now many of you have (hopefully) heard about The Water Cooler. It has been well documented in the media that Mark Rivers is leading the charge start a downtown incubator. The Water Cooler is the evolution of those plans. The Water cooler won’t so much be a typical business incubator as [...]

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Does anyone remember their chemistry?

Not really. This was a question that was asked a group of area business owners last week during the semi-annual INL sponsored tour. Wednesday and Thursday, the group, including legislators and economic development professionals, spent time learning more about the Lab and the types (breadth and depth) of research performed.
I’ll be honest. [...]

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Results from Boise Idea Market

I have posted up some of the results from the Boise Idea Market on the LGM blog:
http://www3.lgmllc.com/2007/06/09/results-from-the-boise-idea-market/
There, you can see the wisdom of the crowd on the following topics “Best business advice you ever got,” and “what is your personal mantra.”
Feel free to link to it if you have a posting from the idea [...]

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