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Z & R Ventures, Inc.

Not a day goes by that I don’t hear of or personally connect with an entrepreneur in the Bakken, the country’s largest shale oil play.  What stands out is the innovation and ideas surrounding this opportunity and how business folks have literally learned how to create lemonade out of the lemons our national economy has dealt them. Z & [...]

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Open for Business in the Bakken – Frontier Insurance Solutions

An essential component of opening any business is to let potential customers know who you are, what you do, and that you are open for business.  In layman’s terms “hanging out your shingle”.   Seems logical doesn’t it?  Opening your doors in any marketplace has to be more than Kevin Costner’s Field of Dreams, “build it and [...]

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General Distributing…providing options…providing solutions, but never forgetting their roots

As I toured the trade show floor at the recent Montana Energy 2012 energy symposium in Billings, Montana I was struck by the number of recognizable businesses I came across.  While some of the recognition came from the national brands represented by the various vendors, most of it came from the recognizable, long time Montana [...]

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Canvas Creek Team Building

Have you ever met someone, that at the very moment you connected you feel as if you have known them a lifetime?  Someone so real, so genuine, so lacking in pretense that you don’t have to struggle through the normal “getting to know them” phase. What a completely new and unique experience in this fast [...]

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Landing in the Bakken with “Dakota Landing”

It’s probably an understatement that opportunity abounds on multiple levels in the Bakken oil fields of eastern Montana and western North Dakota. Whether you are an experienced or an aspiring entrepreneur; whether you are a business owner looking for an expanded marketplace; or whether you are someone just looking at a job with solid wages [...]

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Sanderson Stewart – Building Enduring Communities in the Bakken

To label the “Bakken Boom” as a boom is somewhat misleading, as serious oil industry and supportive infrastructure demands continue to be fueled by this world class technology oil play.  Communities in 17 western North Dakota counties, strive to emerge from the daily triage of putting out the biggest fires first to a much more strategic and tactical approach with [...]

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Solomon Bruce Consulting LLC

As we grow through life we tended to become a little jaded.  Most of us can easily recount in great detail the times we have been disappointed.  Essentially, we become much more difficult to impress.  So, when I was first introduced to Dr. Joe Michels, the principal at Solomon Bruce Consulting LLC, my initial thoughts were, [...]