ReadWriteStart

JULY 19, 2023

In the fast-paced world of technology and venture capital, a new player has emerged, poised to significantly impact the startup ecosystem. Jahn Karsybaev and Adil Nurgozhin founded Big Sky Capital to support and invest in promising enterprise SaaS startups.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

See Also: How Traveling Helped Me Prepare for Startup Life. 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. In the end, I learned a lot of what I needed to know through experience—some of which was fun, and some of which was painful.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2017

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. What are the startup costs associated with this business? If you sell investors on your idea, they are more likely to invest startup capital in your company.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

OH in South Park, San Francisco (or on Zoom from Big Sky, Montana): “OMG, crazy – that firm just paid 100x revenue to invest in [insert hot startup here] – what could they be thinking?” . When speaking with founders and … The post When Entry Multiples Don’t Matter appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2012

Amy and I were in Missoula for the marathon on Sunday and I decided to do a Meetup talk about Startup Communities. Rob Irizarry and the Montana Programmers Meetup made everything happen – all I had to do was show up and talk. I was totally, completely blown away by Elke and what she and her gang have created at Mamalode.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 5, 2012

Yesterday at 4:57pm I hit send in Gmail and submitted the final draft of my newest book Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneur Ecosystem In You City to my publisher (Wiley). Startup Communities is the first book in a four book series I’m doing called Startup Revolution. My deadline was the end of day on July 5th.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

OH in South Park, San Francisco (or on Zoom from Big Sky, Montana): “OMG, crazy – that firm just paid 100x revenue to invest in [insert hot startup here] – what could they be thinking?” . When speaking with founders and … The post When Entry Multiples Don’t Matter appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2020

This is exactly how a Montana LLC, with one of its managing members being a California resident and therefore the LLC’s Registered Agent, managed to conduct business and operate lawfully in California. . appeared first on The Startup Magazine. The post How Can A Non-resident Of California Set Up An LLC?

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A Crowded Space

APRIL 6, 2018

We send out a book every month or two that we think is a phenomenal book, has relevance to the startup ecosystem, represents a wide variety of subjects, and is not just the top book on the bestseller list. Combining fields like science, music, sports, art, and more yield incredible results.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 11, 2017

I haven’t been here in a while but it’s pretty awesome to see how the startup community has grown in the past five years. I had dinner with my brother Daniel and my cousin Kenny (who lives here) last night at the original Ted’s Montana’s Grill that’s on the corner of Luckie Street and Ted Turner Drive.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

OH in South Park, San Francisco (or on Zoom from Big Sky, Montana): “OMG, crazy – that firm just paid 100x revenue to invest in [insert hot startup here] – what could they be thinking?” . When speaking with founders and … The post When Entry Multiples Don’t Matter appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

But in some states like Wyoming and Montana, the population is spread out over a larger geographic area, so they offer more online counseling and training because it’s easier for most people to access. Obviously, a startup is going to have radically different needs than an existing business,” Rowe says.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Now, with his wife, Claire, he owns a guide company in the Bob Marshall Wilderness of Montana. Even before the pandemic, we let our fascination with larger businesses – and the cheaper prices and greater convenience they provide to us – crowd out the evidence of what’s going at the startup and small end of the economy.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We work with founding teams in the Mountain West (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming) who have demonstrated an ability to get sh*t done… We empower founders with a 30-day fundraising process instead of multiple months running a gauntlet. “. Up to $3M in growth capital for your tech startup”.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Startups and angels: Along the way to success.   Greg Gianforte at RightNow Technologies in Bozeman, Montana (recently sold to Oracle) is a famous proponent of bootstrapping for this exact reason. Funding startups. Startup ideas. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. September 2011. March 2011.

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Up and Running

JULY 5, 2017

There are five states that do not charge sales tax: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon. Using Pennsylvania as an example again, its sales tax rate is 6 percent (there is an additional local tax in Allegheny County and Philadelphia). Both brick-and-mortar and online businesses could have a sales tax responsibility.

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aweissman.com

OCTOBER 3, 2009

"Lesson number two: dont get high on your own supply" -- Elvira Hancock At betaworks we try to (over) simplify some key principles ( no business development , for example) to operate our businesses, and look for inspiration for those ideas in disparate pockets.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2017

I’m a big believer of lean startup. In 2009, during a hunting trip in Montana, I realized there wasn’t a “go-to” brand on the Internet to research hunts and outfitters and connect with other people. Thanks to Annkur P Agarwal, Pricebab ! #6 6 – Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. – Mark Twain.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

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. Montana photo by C.S. There were a number of reasons for this: 1) We had no idea what we'd do with the money. 2) We assumed our apps' success would be huge and immediate. Discuss.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

As she began to come to the end of her studies at the University of Montana in Missoula, she started to think about the possibility of another possible path for her life and her overall career plans. The post Socati’s Dr. Frances Gilman Speaks About Her Startup Work appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

OH in South Park, San Francisco (or on Zoom from Big Sky, Montana): “OMG, crazy – that firm just paid 100x revenue to invest in [insert hot startup here] – what could they be thinking?”

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

And being from Montana, I also wanted a belt that could transition to all of my active lifestyle endeavors. Thanks to Tabitha Jean Naylor, Successful Startup 101 ! #37 I knew that I wanted to create a product that filled an apparent need, but also gave back as much as possible. 37 – Looking for My Next Challenge.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 29, 2014

I’m going to lay out the specific tests & processes I’ve used to grow these startups into incredibly valuable businesses. If you follow American football with any regularity you’ve surely heard of Joe Montana & Dan Marino. Joe Montana won four titles in his career. How important is CRO? image source.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

While the hypergrowth of blitzscaling is often synonymous with the latest high-tech startup from Silicon Valley, blitzscaling isn’t limited by geography, industry, or even company size. Even when you’re an existing company, there are a lot of startups that are going after the same opportunity, so your chances of success are low.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 2, 2017

And it grabs everyone she meets, including me when I first learned about EMC and have been an enthusiastic supporter since, helping them connect with theSkimm and other startups which can spread their message. So it thrills me to share a bit more about Christy, EMC and being a public personality here in Five Questions.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 7, 2010

P lay4Skill , a relatively unknown Israeli startup, has raised an second round of $400,000 from from Israeli advertising agency Adler Chomsky. P4S develops multi-player skill games, primarily focused on 3D life-like Domino games. Dominoes Stars , the company’s flagship product, is available as a downloadable client or an online game.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 7, 2012

Obviously the answer changes if we’re talking about startup advice, although it’s still nuanced. Clearly Barack Obama is more influential in Politics than Brian Schweitzer (governor of Montana). Is he more or less influential than Paul Graham for this topic?

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Up and Running

JULY 17, 2015

Creating a business plan and securing funding are common items on the startup to-do list. In all states except Montana, there is an at-will work law in place. Prepare your startup by reading about the new healthcare policies. Are you finally ready to turn your business idea into a reality? At-Will work doctrine. Healthcare laws.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As the CEO and co-founder of Treehouse, an online tech school that teaches people how to make apps, Ryan Carson has a lot of great insight on running a startup. Head over to A Smart Bear for his thoughts on startups and marketing, from a decidedly geeky point of view. Pete Sveen is an entrepreneur in Montana. EntreLeadership.

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