Saw this from MATR via The Idaho Statesman.
Kount is one of the newer companies to hatch from the Keynetics “idea factory”. For those not familiar with Keynetics, they are a self funded “incubator”, focusing primarily in the e-commerce space. Their biggest and most well known cash cow company (at least in the e-commerce space is [...]
Archive for September, 2008
I’ve shared my views on how important I think the local media is to a thriving tech and entrepreneur ecosystem. We all see the bad news locally around the media industry, especially on the print side of things, so I wanted to take this time to point out what a good job I thought the [...]
Cece Gassner from the City of Boise (can’t remember what her official title is) sent this over. We have had some early success with the previously mentioned SBIR process. Kevin Bentley was awarded an Idaho GPI grant to help him while he works on the SBIR proposal.
Rick Ritter & Krissa Wrigley at TechConnect has also [...]
Avid SecondLifer and Administrator at the Idaho Department of Science and Technology, Brian Dickens, sent over this news about the University of Idaho opening a virtual campus in Second Life. I have to wonder if this is a move to get new students or just provide a way for existing students to make it to [...]
By now you may have heard that we’ve brought Tac Anderson on as an “Entrepreneur-in-Residence” (EIR) at Highway 12 Ventures. I want to express how thrilled we are to have him on our team. Tac’s role will be to help our team get (a lot) smarter as it relates to Web 2.0 and social media [...]
I was invited to an event that Gallatin Public Affairs is hosting (see details below). I was already bummed I am going to be Boston during the event (I’m a sucker for a free lunch), then Brad Wiskirchen, CEO of Keynetics, sent the following recommendation and now I’m doubly dissapointed:
I have met with the speakers [...]
VCIR 2008 Conference – Mountain Biking, Fly-fishing and Abundant Industry Discussion | Balihoo Kennel - Advertising Media Insiders
Balihoo did a great job presenting at VCIR Fall. Pete’s presentation confirmed my beliefe that Balihoo will be Boise’s next big breakout success. You can read Balihoo’s report for more.
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Web 2.0, Venture Capital and [...]
Not that there is much of a carbon footprint for this blog but we have decided to go “Green”. (Heck if General Motors can do it so can we.)
Wedneday, September 24th at the WaterCooler (14th and Idaho) at 5:30, we will be pleased to have three Boise based alternative energy companies presenting.
Exergy Development Group - [...]
Got this from Gallatin Public Affairs:
We are happy to share an upcoming event that you might find of interest. Next week, Gallatin’s client Idaho
National Laboratory is co-sponsoring with Microsoft and Cascadia Institute a conference examining the implications of transitioning to the electric car. “Beyond Oil” is the fifth in an annual series of conferences [...]
The IBR has some good coverage this week that’s relevant to our readers here.
17 Idaho companies rank among nation’s fastest-growing 5,000The IBR breaks down where Idaho sits on the latest Inc 5000
Otter pledges to grow Idaho’s economy to $60 billionI want to believe. I know Don Dietrich is working to drive this forward but the [...]
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