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A startup company designed to help women advance their careers with tech sales is moving forward with its mission after tying for second place in the pitch competition during Boise Entrepreneur Week (BEW) in October.  Jenny Anderson’s presentation on her startup firm, ...

Flashpoint Building Systems co-owners Nick Stoppello and Pat Churchman are hammering away at the concepts that garnered them the $10,000 first-place award in the Hacking for Homebuilding (H4H) competition in October 2021.  The public-track winners in the second annual H4H competition shared their concept ...

A “rag-tag group of individuals” needed less than a week to snatch the $12,000 first-place award in the Micron Cybersecurity Entrepreneur Challenge (CEC) in October. Now they’re poised to use their winnings to bring their company to full potential.  TAC Security successfully responded to the ...

Winners in Boise State University’s inaugural Cybersecurity Entrepreneur Challenge (CEC) and the second annual Hacking for Homebuilding (HH) competition were announced Oct. 21 during Boise Entrepreneur Week.  For the latter, organizers expanded the competition to include a public track along with the student track. First place in each track captured ...

Boise State University’s Venture College has partnered with its College of Innovation and Design, College of Engineering and business partners to challenge students and the public in the second annual Hacking for Homebuilding (HH) competition. Students and the general public compete in their own tracks for $20,000 in prize money ...

Teams of higher-education students from across Idaho will compete for more than $30,000 in the inaugural Cybersecurity Entrepreneurship Challenge (CEC) in October, dubbed Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Participants in the challenge will choose a problem statement provided by industry partners to Boise State University’s Institute for ...

Despite any still-lingering COVID-19 concerns, interest in visiting and recreating in the mountain communities of Valley County — McCall, Cascade, Donnelly and neighboring areas — has grown virtually unabated.  And real estate sales are running apace.  Statewide lockdowns, mandated early ...

Teton County is one of the few in eastern Idaho without a full-time economic development professional, so local business owners are creating an alternative to meet that need. Communities facing the Idaho side of the Grand Tetons are trying to ...

With about 10 years still to go before full development, the Idaho Botanical Garden is either installing or planning projects annually. “The garden is now and has been in development mode for a long time,” said Julia Rundberg, executive director ...

With a background in risk management and safety, insurance agent Isabel Waddell said her entry into the business was serendipitous. Waddell was working as an in-house consultant for waste-management for the Idaho National Laboratory and had been toying with the ...