How many of you read the nice article that Tom Loutzenheiser wrote about gazelles for the Idaho Statesman? (Nov 16; linked at right in Bookmarks or?Ǭ† here). Nor have I seen any comments in the blogosphere. It scrolled off the front page immediately but I did comment on it. Not sure if anyone will see [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Feb 7 - and, ok, it’s in Midway, not SLC -anyway, see the attached file (assuming I attach it properly…)
Brad Bertoch knows Boise. I met him only briefly, but the Wayne Brown Institute has a long track record. A long, GOOD track record. They and Zions Bank have started some interesting things that… I’ll talk [...]
Idahoan creates skin care products
Dermatologist founds company
Economic slump is not expected to last
The valley is coming back
Boise firm’s technology could lighten load for soldiers
Tech company here could help US soldiers with a rechargable battery
Start-ups: Small start-ups thrive in Idaho but seldom become lots biggerGrowing our gazelles
How do we move to the next step?
Hope everyone had [...]
Steve Nipper and I did a blog dinner a little over a year ago and have been trying to do another one ever since. We’ve only managed the one so far, we’re not doing so good.
Jason over at Philoking.com is trying to round up local bloggers and in the process has given Steve and [...]
A quick followup re last Tuesday’s IRP board meeting after a note from last Thursday’s IEDA meeting…
IEDA is the state “trade association” for economic development & has some serious, committed, passionate talent working for our communities statewide [www.ieda.biz]. Entrepreneurial development is slowly getting on their radar screen. [Even nationally, economic development tends to focus on [...]
When I walked into the WaterCooler a few weeks back to donate my time painting and eating pizza I was greeted by the site of Cheryl Larabee and Alicia Ritter sitting comfortably in two horridly pink circa 1950’s.
While I thought it was odd I didn’t think too much about it. I was later informed with [...]
Idaho Rural Partnership Board meeting on Tuesday focused heavily on encouraging entrepreneurship. (With Nancy Bergmann as chair, are you surprised?) They have a task force that’s entrepreneur-driven (much like the emerging Idaho Innovation Alliance ["I2A"]). I found their desire to partner - with everyone - quite promising!
Entrepreneurs Brice Sloan [www.sloanfencing.com] and Ed Meyer were a [...]
Thanks for all the “cards and letters” re my prior post!
The Kauffman trip to KC was productive in many respects. Confirmed that there’s serious money out there for entrepreneurial training initiatives, especially broad partnerships, especially for K-12 & community colleges - sustainable entrepreneurship too. Potentially money for Idaho… But there are steps Idaho will [...]
Some of you may be familiar with Silicon Valley tech gossip blog Valley Wag. Normally Valley Wag wouldn’t have much interest to or in Treasure Valley residents, but taking a departure from their own valley they posted some commentary on Appleton’s and his refusal of his yearly bonus.
Micron, a memory-chip manufacturer, had a bad [...]
While in KC, I met one guy who’s done rigorous work on the relative impact on job creation of business attraction, business expansion and business creation. the numbers may be jarring, but [wonk alert! wonk alert!] read on for the good news for Idaho!
The best evidence we have is that the economic multiplier for an [...]
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