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The nice thing about Leif Elgethun’s business, Retrolux, is that it’s pretty much recession-proof, he said. Elgethun’s company develops software for the energy-efficient lighting industry. It has two primary markets: lighting retrofit contractors, who are helping building owners change their ...

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According to Metcalfe’s Law, the value of a network is the square of the number of nodes it has. That is, a network with 100 users is 100 times as valuable as a network with just 10 users. That’s what ...

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MetaGeek, one of the more venerable members of Idaho’s startup community, is pivoting product delivery to help it get through a rough patch. The Boise startup, founded in 2005, makes tools for managing Wi-Fi networks. “We started out making hardware ...

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Startups generally take one of three paths: They go out of business, go public, or get acquired. In the case of Jelli Inc., it was the latter. The San Mateo, California-based company, with an office in Boise, is being acquired ...

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An opportunity for an Idaho startup is taking it to Luxembourg. The company is HotShot Technologies, an Idaho Falls developer that created a messaging application that protects employers from labor claims by ensuring that hourly employees can only read messages ...

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Increasingly, people – most notably millennials, if you believe the stereotype – are moving away from email and toward texting, particularly for business collaboration. The problem is texting isn’t as secure, because hackers can interject themselves into the conversation to ...

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Shervin Talieh knew he wanted to set up a new office for his company in Boise during breakfast at Goldy’s in a 48-hour whirlwind visit. “At the end of the day, it’s chemical,” said Talieh, CEO of Partner Hero, which ...

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When Matt Rissell, CEO of TSheets Inc., agreed in December to be acquired by Intuit Inc., one of his friends made a bet with him: The new owners would make him take the beer keg out of the break room, ...

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