On November 17, 2017, CEO Tim Sheehy and his team welcomed guests to their 30,000-sq. ft. facility at Bozeman airfield in Belgrade to celebrate…

Alliance members mingled on the sixth floor of First Interstate Bank's downtown Missoula building and enjoyed food from Market on Front. Tom Severson and his team at FIB provided a warm welcome at their beautiful building with stunning river views. Many members attended the Montana High Tech Jobs Summit preceding the reception.

With more than 700 attendees, the second biannual Montana High Tech Jobs Summit is testament to local support of high tech growth and jobs in Montana.

It was a painful, yet familiar, story for executives around the table. Kevin, a top manager at a Montana technology firm, had recently made a job offer to Mark, a promising programmer from Salt Lake City. Mark sold his house, packed up his wife and kids, and moved to Missoula on a Saturday to begin the new position on Monday…

Greg and Susan Gianforte hosted 150 leaders in high-tech and manufacturing at their home for the Montana High Tech Business Alliance’s reception in Bozeman on July 6, 2017…

Meg Oliver, alumna of the University of Montana Journalism School and Correspondent for CBS News in New York City, read 15 Montana Companies to Watch in 2017 and was inspired to do a story that aired across the country on May 4, 2017.

Conversations about entrepreneurship often focus on Silicon Valley, Boston or other major metropolitan areas, yet Missoula and Bozeman, Montana enjoy some of the highest levels of entrepreneurship in the nation in terms of startup and high-growth companies, as well as spinoff activities, according to a report funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.Missoula and Bozeman rank 9th and 12th highest in startup rates among 394 areas in the U.S., and the proportion of high-growth firms is particularly high in Bozeman, higher than Denver (9th in the nation) and almost compatible with Washington, D.C. (1st in the nation), according to the report.

Recruiting skilled workers is the #1 barrier to growth for Montana high-tech and manufacturing companies. At the Montana High Tech Business Alliance CEO Roundtable hosted by Yellowstone Bank in Billings, leaders emphasized the role of company culture in finding good people and keeping turnover low.

Access to capital is one of the biggest barriers to growth for Montana’s high tech and manufacturing firms. As we learned from the Alliance's CEO Roundtable on financing business growth, finding money isn't always easy and often involves using multiple resources over the life of a company.

Access to capital is the second biggest barrier to growth for Montana’s high tech and manufacturing firms, according to a Montana High Tech Business Alliance survey conducted in February 2015.

Montana High Tech Business Alliance members have a starring role in the summer issue of the Montana Business Quarterly out this month. T

Recruiting skilled workers is the #1 barrier to growth for Montana high tech and manufacturing firms. Whether hiring software developers, machinists, or lawyers, Montana employers face similar challenges. Based on conversations with members around the state, here are a dozen ways to attract the best talent.