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. ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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 require ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 and ...

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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 ...

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