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For the second year in a row, a third of the startups presenting at the annual Investors Choice conference in Salt Lake City were from Idaho. Did it work? It’s too soon to tell for 2019 — it generally takes a ...

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Angel investors want to fund companies, but startups need to prove that they deserve the money, and to do that, they need to have their stuff together. That’s according to Kevin Learned, partner with Loon Creek Capital in Boise, who ...

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Westmark Credit Union is celebrating its first downtown Boise branch at Parkcenter on March 1. “The Treasure Valley’s hopping, and we’re trying to take advantage of the opportunity,” said Jonathan Galusha, senior vice president of branch administration. The credit union ...

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Development of Idaho Central Credit Union’s first Moscow branch is still on track, with the branch expected to open by late fall. ICCU, the largest credit union in Idaho, had announced the branch in October, with construction scheduled to start ...

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Northwest Farm Credit Services has announced that it will pay a record $138.4 million in 2018 patronage to more than 9,000 customer-members, compared to $108.1 million for 2017. Since the patronage program began in 2000, Northwest FCS has paid more than $936 million ...

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“When you start a new position, don’t do anything for six months,” said Steve Storey, president of KeyBank’s Idaho market and head of Key Private Bank, quoting the old saying. “It’s good advice, but I’m not heeding it 100 percent.” That ...

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As many as one in three households in the U.S. have a family member with special needs, but it can be difficult to figure out how to finance their care without jeopardizing funding they receive. That’s where banks and other ...

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A recent entrepreneurial event sponsored by the Idaho Technology Council was notable for what it didn’t say: all three entrepreneurs on the panel were women, and their businesses are geared toward women. The ITC didn’t set out to have an ...

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Northwestern Mutual, a Milwaukee-based financial services mutual organization, has appointed a new district director for its Coeur d’Alene office who expects to grow the firm in the next year. Joey Meehan, district director, said he doesn’t have an exact number ...

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Pioneer Federal Credit Union will build a new headquarters in Mountain Home beginning this summer. The two-story building is slated to be 25,000-30,000 square feet, and will house the administrative side of the credit union, which is currently housed in the adjacent ...