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Starting (Up) in the Big Sky: Fund Raising Outside Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

We had written code for 8 months in our home town of Missoula, Montana before it occurred to us we might need to raise money to launch our startup. I went out to lunch one day with an astonishingly good developer and entrepreneur named Glenn Kreisel. We had a name, and a logo ripped off from a free logo site. Discuss.

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Why AI Isn’t Replacing You—It’s Freeing You

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He lives in Red Lodge, Montana, active community in community service through Young Life. John Jantsch (23:08.627) Again, appreciate you taking a moment and maybe I'll run into you one of these days next time I'm up in Montana. He started his entrepreneurial journey at 14. We were just talking about it. So Keith, welcome to the show.

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How “False Expertise” Can Damage Your Business—and How to Protect It

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Or Monroe, Montana? But you’re also mistaken: There is no Monroe, Montana. Resumes are noisy: The name at the top may suggest gender and ethnicity. For her company, Liberos , she abandoned a preferred, casual tone (such as using her first name) to keep signals of expertise at the forefront.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Domain Name/Basic Site. Why use your real name? We require the use of your full name to authenticate your identity.

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Balloon Wars

Steve Blank

They placed aerial reconnaissance cameras on the balloons and ran a series of test programs (code names of GOPHER, MOBY DICK, GRANDSON and GRAYBACK) launching 640 balloons from New Mexico, Montana, the West Coast, Missouri and Georgia.

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The Anti-Time Management Strategy That Actually Gives You Your Time Back

Duct Tape Marketing

Whereas someone who wants to live by a lake in Montana could go to Montana, live by a lake and make the same money or more and live the lifestyle they wanted from the start. John Jantsch (16:24): Well and how much stuff do we do in the name of being busy? So someone will get paid in a way they don't like living. powered by.

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2013’s Top 10 Small Towns For Mobile Entrepreneurs

Mike Michalowicz

Bozeman, Montana. Makes it one of the largest small towns in the Midwestern United States, and the fourth largest city in Montana. The locales will tell you the story behind that name. An easy winner of 2013’s top towns for mobile entrepreneurs. The state is the fourth largest in landmass, but the 48th in population density.

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