I moved to Montana eight years ago, in January of 2011, after my husband landed his dream job with the U.S. Forest Service in Missoula. I had never been to Montana…

Tom Stergios never would have predicted that the office he opened for ATG in Missoula as a remote worker in 2011 would have grown…

The high level of entrepreneurship activity in Montana is founded on dense networks of active local support organizations that are well-perceived and utilized…

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.

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.