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Jesse McKinney – Startup Community – Power List
[caption id="attachment_279019" align="alignnone" width="620"] Jesse McKinney – Startup Community – Power List[/caption] While her biggest accomplishment is being a mother to her two boys, Boise native Jesse McKinney truly demonstrates what it looks like to be woman who can conquer everything on her plate — and still make time to help others. She co-founded (with her sister and a longtim[...]
Letter from the editor
I recently attended a couple talks given by Trailhead Executive Director Tiam Rastegar regarding the nonprofit’s work with the startup community. During these talks, he was vocal about adjustments Trailhead had recently made to ensure a “founders first” mentality, putting startups at the center of the entrepreneur ecosystem. Our startup Power List this year does exactly that — with [...]
Tyler Alvarado – Startup Community – Power List
[caption id="attachment_278959" align="alignnone" width="620"] Tyler Alvarado – Startup Community – Power List[/caption] Tyler Alvarado said that from a young age, he always had an entrepreneurial spirit. He graduated college with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a Master of Business Administration from Washington State University and planned to pursue a career in investment banking.[...]
Megan Lacy – Startup Community – Power List
[caption id="attachment_279010" align="alignnone" width="620"] Megan Lacy – Startup Community – Power List[/caption] Hearing “Have a big life” often from her mom when she was growing up, Megan Lacy was encouraged to dream big as a kid. She felt fully supported to explore the world and find a career that gave her purpose. So, when it came to college, she planned to do just that. Lacy [...]
Kate Stoddard – Startup Community – Power List
[caption id="attachment_279037" align="alignnone" width="620"] Kate Stoddard – Startup Community – Power List[/caption] Idaho native Kate Stoddard is a writer, scientist and river guide who wove together her passions for nature and the nourishment it provides by launching Orchestra Provisions, a maker of protein-based superfood powders that support regenerative agriculture (designed to requ[...]
Eric Torres-Garcia – Startup Community – Power List
[caption id="attachment_279043" align="alignnone" width="620"] Eric Torres-Garcia – Startup Community – Power List[/caption] With a life motto to “always just go for it!” an entrepreneurial spirit and a hard time taking “no” for an answer, Eric Torres-Garcia came onto the Idaho startup scene with his Cocoa Bombs invention, created as an entertaining alternative to ordinary hot choco[...]
Steven Burden – Startup Community – Power List
[caption id="attachment_278980" align="alignnone" width="620"] Steven Burden – Startup Community – Power List[/caption] Steven Burden is passionate about human health. After working for almost a decade as a medical technologist and witnessing the lack of access to timely and quality diagnostic testing, he set out to do something about it. He founded Facible Biodiagnostics in 2019, and since[...]
Troy McClain – Startup Community – Power List
[caption id="attachment_279016" align="alignnone" width="620"] Troy McClain – Startup Community – Power List[/caption] Troy McClain is a business force to be reckoned with. Raised in Montana by a single mother, he and his sisters learned what it meant to work hard — no matter what. His aptitude for business was something he was aware of early in his life. As he continued to gain experienc[...]
Michael Boerner – Startup Community – Power List
[caption id="attachment_278977" align="alignnone" width="620"] Michael Boerner – Startup Community – Power List[/caption] With over 25 years of experience founding and leading technology and media companies, entrepreneur Michael Boerner has recruited a world-class team of executives from companies like Apple, HP, Cradlepoint, Microsoft, Audi, Allergan and AbbVie to execute its business plan[...]
Alexis Rankin – Startup Community – Power List
[caption id="attachment_279031" align="alignnone" width="620"] Alexis Rankin – Startup Community – Power List[/caption] It began with a question: Since you can review restaurants, products and even professors, why can’t you review roommates? That simple question led Alexis Rankin to co-found Chillow, a mobile application that gives users the ability to review and endorse people they’ve [...]
Dan DeCloss – Startup Community – Power List
[caption id="attachment_278986" align="alignnone" width="620"] Dan DeCloss – Startup Community – Power List[/caption] Dan DeCloss has a contagious, can-do attitude that has proven invaluable during his work as a technology innovator and entrepreneur. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Northwest Nazarene University, then went on to complete a master’s degree in[...]
Matt Bishop – Startup Community – Power List
[caption id="attachment_278971" align="alignnone" width="620"] Matt Bishop – Startup Community – Power List[/caption] In 2016, Matt Bishop purchased a pack mule (Richard) to fulfill a vision, and within five short years, he managed to turn his pastime of serving free coffee to outdoor enthusiasts exploring the Boise Foothills into a profitable business. “I had this idea that if I serve[...]
