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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

By comparison, Brian Morgan, who founded Adventure Life , from Missoula, Montana, started in 1998 with 16 employees and a decade later was earning $11 million after an initial investment capital of $3,000 spent on a laptop and two brochures. His startup focused on providing travel to exotic destinations around the world.

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6 Things to Consider Before Entering a Market

Up and Running

We are deluged by the media with stories of multimillionaire and billionaire entrepreneurs with their ridiculous lifestyles. For example, the farm and ranch real estate market in Montana is composed of a few large firms and hundreds of mom and pop shops, so it is very fragmented. Everyone thinks being an entrepreneur is sexy.

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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

The first few were media businesses, which I had some experience with as a former reporter. But when I was working as a reporter in 2007, I covered the purchase of a local ski resort in Montana by business mogul Bill Foley. Suddenly, I realized that I had the basics to start a business.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Butte, Montana was a copper mining town. The mainstream media could have taken a more conscious, deliberate role in telling stories about how the pandemic impacted people's mental health. #3- After the special feature of our community. Photo Credit: Mackenzie Quinn. Thanks to Dan Stewart, Happy Grasshopper ! #7-

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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. Poquoson is a small town with a big media presence. 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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How “False Expertise” Can Damage Your Business—and How to Protect It

ConversionXL

False experts include legions of self-appointed “gurus” and “visionaries” who saturate social media with bad advice. Or Monroe, Montana? But you’re also mistaken: There is no Monroe, Montana. Consumers don’t know a good agency from a bad one, so social media presence or a major speaking gig becomes an easy proxy.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I use my social media and massive amounts of public outreach to bring awareness to my program (my Instagram grew to 12,000 engaged followers). I was tired of reading about dog food company recalls every time I opened up the news or social media. At the time, I was a doing sales and marketing for a media company.