Now in its second year, the Idaho Technology Council’s Knowledge Report is looking at the state more granularly than in its initial report. While some industry issues are universal statewide – graduating enough people to produce the skilled workforce industry ...

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The Idaho Technology Council (ITC), which is celebrating its 10-year anniversary, has changed some of its leadership. The organization added Amy Lientz, director of stakeholder & education partnerships for Idaho National Laboratory, and Paris Cole, CEO of Truckstop.com, as co-vice ...

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The specter of an upcoming recession loomed over the recent Capital Connect Conference, put on by the Idaho Technology Council as a snapshot of the year’s entrepreneurial activity, but results are pretty good, for now. It’s hard not to think ...

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  Investment deals dropped to $1.73 billion in 2018, compared with $2.04 billion the previous year, but showed an 11% increase in the number of deals, according to the Deal Flow Report released May 8 at the Idaho Technology Council’s ...

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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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Idaho’s technology community said it largely expects more of the same in 2019. Some additional technologies may be added to the mix, said Jay Larsen, president and CEO of the Idaho Technology Council. For example, he said to improve security, ...

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While more than half of Idaho’s technology jobs are based in the Treasure Valley, a number of efforts are underway to look for entrepreneurs in other parts of the state and provide them with resources they need to be successful. ...

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Idaho, particularly Boise, can become more of a tech hub as places like Silicon Valley lose their luster, but it has to take advantage of the situation, attendees of the Idaho Technology Council’s develop.idaho conference learned. The two major components ...

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More than half of Idaho’s technology jobs are located in the Boise area, yet even there, they represent less than 10 percent of the jobs in the area. Idaho needs to look at ways to increase the number of technology ...

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A Salt Lake City private equity firm has decided to scrap plans to develop an Idaho-only venture capital fund. Banyan Ventures had mentioned its plans for such a fund in April at the Idaho Technology Council’s (ITC) Capital Conference, and ...

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